Beloslav Municipality

Beloslav Municipality
Община Белослав
Municipality
Beloslav Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Beloslav Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Coordinates: 43°10′N 27°41′E / 43.167°N 27.683°E / 43.167; 27.683
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Varna
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Beloslav
Area
 • Total
91.3 km2 (35.3 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
11,257
 • Density120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Beloslav Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Белослав) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Beloslav.

The municipality embraces a territory of 91.3 km2 (35.3 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 11,257 inhabitants.[1]

Settlements

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

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Beloslav Белослав 7,937
Ezerovo Езерово 1,845
Razdelna Разделна 537
Strashimirovo Страшимирово 938
Total 11,257

Demography

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

Beloslav Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 13,502 12,687 11,079 11,131 11,195 11,309 11,257 ...
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 Beloslav Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 82.5%
Catholicism
 
 0.4%
Protestantism
 
 0.7%
Islam
 
 4.8%
No religion
 
 5.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 6.2%

An overwhelming majority of the population of Beloslav Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 82.5% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, 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. ^ 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.