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Medkovets Municipality

Medkovets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Медковец) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the area of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Medkovets.

The municipality embraces a territory of 188 km (73 sq mi) with a population of 3,939 inhabitants, as of February 2011.

Settlements

Medkovets Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:

Town/Village Cyrillic Population
(December 2009)
Medkovets Медковец 1,850
Asparuhovo Аспарухово 556
Pishurka Пишурка 124
Rasovo Расово 1,297
Slivovik Сливовик 483
Total 4,310

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Medkovets Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 9,463 7,640 6,849 5,661 4,856 4,571 4,310 3,939
Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“,

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

Religious composition of Medkovets Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
73.9%
Catholicism
0.2%
Protestantism
0.4%
Islam
0.0%
No religion
16.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
9.1%

See also

References

  1. ^ (in Bulgarian)National Statistical Institute - Census 2011 Archived April 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. ^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.