Varna Municipality
Община Варна | |
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Coordinates: 43°11′N 27°52′E / 43.183°N 27.867°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province (Oblast) | Varna |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Varna |
Area | |
• Total | 237.5 km2 (91.7 sq mi) |
Population (15.03.2016)
[1] | |
• Total | 373,601 |
• Density | 1,600/km2 (4,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Varna Municipality ( Bulgarian: Община Варна) is a seaside municipality ( obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and near Varna lake. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Varna - which is also the capital of the homonymous province.
The municipality embraces a territory of 237.5 km2 (91.7 sq mi) with a population, as of March 2016, of 373,601 inhabitants, the nation's second largest municipality after the Sofia Capital Municipality. [2]
Varna Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population
[3]
[4]
[5] (March 2016) |
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Varna | Варна | 365,242 |
Kazashko | Казашко | 362 |
Kamenar | Каменар | 2,783 |
Konstantinovo | Константиново | 1,225 |
Topoli | Тополи | 2,995 |
Zvezditsa | Звездица | 994 |
Total | 373,601 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Varna Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 257,254 | 308,053 | 315,336 | 320,668 | 319,800 | 322,114 | 329,173 | 343,704 |
Sources: Census 2001, [6] Census 2011, [7] „pop-stat.mashke.org“, [8] |
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
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Bulgarians | 290780 | 93.4% |
Turks | 11089 | 3.6% |
Roma (Gypsy) | 3535 | 1.1% |
Other | 3481 | 1.1% |
Undeclared | 2315 | 0.7% |
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
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