Letnitsa Municipality

Letnitsa Municipality
Община Летница
Municipality
Letnitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Letnitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°16′N 25°3′E / 43.267°N 25.050°E / 43.267; 25.050
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Letnitsa
Area
 • Total
178 km2 (69 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
5,101
 • Density28.7/km2 (74.2/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Letnitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Летница) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Letnitsa.

The municipality embraces a territory of 178 km2 (69 sq mi) with a population of 5,101 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Letnitsa Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
LetnitsaЛетница3,739
Gorsko SlivovoГорско Сливово715
KrushunaКрушуна505
KarpachevoКърпачево142
Total5,101

Demography

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

Letnitsa Municipality
Year19751985199220012005200720092011
Population8,0437,2016,7525,6075,3925,2585,101...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

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 Letnitsa Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
71.2%
Catholicism
1.0%
Protestantism
0.0%
Islam
10.0%
No religion
9.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
8.7%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 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. ^ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. ^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  8. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
  • Official website (in Bulgarian)
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