Varshets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Вършец) is a municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located on the northern slopes of the western Stara planina mountain to the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Varshets.

The municipality embraces a territory of 240 km (93 sq mi) with a population of 8,108 inhabitants, as of February 2011.

Todorini Kukli peak, 1,785 m (5,856 ft), is located in the southwestern part of the area almost on the very border with Berkovitsa Municipality.

Varshets Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Varshets	Вършец	6,538
Cherkaski	Черкаски	316
Dolna Bela Rechka	Долна Бела речка	99
Dolno Ozirovo	Долно Озирово	477
Draganitsa	Драганица	260
Gorna Bela Rechka	Горна Бела речка	83
Gorno Ozirovo	Горно Озирово	382
Spanchevtsi	Спанчевци	367
Stoyanovo	Стояново	81
Total		8,605

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

Varshets Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	12,119	11,453	11,062	9,870	9,031	8,860	8,605	8,108
Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“,

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 Varshets Municipality Orthodox Christianity   75.7% Catholicism   0.4% Protestantism   1.2% Islam   0.0% No religion   18.5% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   4.2%

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