Pleven Municipality
Община Плевен | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 43°25′N 24°37′E / 43.417°N 24.617°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province (Oblast) | Pleven |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Pleven |
Area | |
• Total | 812.10 km2 (313.55 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 138,095 |
• Density | 170/km2 (440/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Pleven Municipality ( Bulgarian: Община Плевен) is a municipality ( obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Pleven which is also the capital of the Province.
The municipality embraces a territory of 812.10 km2 (313.55 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 138,095 inhabitants. [1]
(towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population
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[3]
[4] (December 2009) |
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Pleven | Плевен | 111,426 |
Beglezh | Беглеж | 782 |
Bohot | Бохот | 880 |
Brestovets | Брестовец | 1,124 |
Brashlyanitsa | Бръшляница | 848 |
Bukovlak | Буковлък | 3,850 |
Varbitsa | Върбица | 656 |
Gortalovo | Горталово | 186 |
Grivitsa | Гривица | 1,778 |
Disevitsa | Дисевица | 1,127 |
Koilovtsi | Коиловци | 1,123 |
Kartozhabene | Къртожабене | 141 |
Kashin | Къшин | 303 |
Laskar | Ласкар | 129 |
Mechka | Мечка | 849 |
Nikolaevo | Николаево | 740 |
Opanets | Опанец | 1796 |
Pelishat | Пелишат | 794 |
Radishevo | Радишево | 507 |
Ralevo | Ралево | 347 |
Slavyanovo | Славяново | 4,422 |
Todorovo | Тодорово | 425 |
Tuchenitsa | Тученица | 339 |
Tarnene | Търнене | 987 |
Yasen | Ясен | 2536 |
Total | 138,095 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Pleven Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 145,380 | 161,991 | 160,480 | 149,174 | 140,967 | 139,573 | 138,095 | ... |
Sources: Census 2001, [5] Census 2011, [6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“, [7] |
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: