Georgi Damyanovo Municipality

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality
Община Георги Дамяново
Municipality
Georgi Damyanovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province.
Georgi Damyanovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province.
Coordinates: 43°19′N 23°0′E / 43.317°N 23.000°E / 43.317; 23.000
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Montana
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Georgi Damyanovo
Area
 • Total
298 km2 (115 sq mi)
Population
 (Census February 2011)[1]
 • Total
2,739
 • Density9.2/km2 (24/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Георги Дамяново) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located on the northern slopes of western Stara Planina mountain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Georgi Damyanovo. In the southwest, the municipality borders on Republic of Serbia.

The municipality embraces a territory of 298 km2 (115 sq mi) with a population of 2,739 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]

Settlements

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality includes the following 13 places all of them villages:

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Georgi Damyanovo Георги Дамяново 566
Chemish Чемиш 81
Diva Slatina Дива Слатина 131
Dalgi Del Дълги дел 191
Elovitsa Еловица 51
Gavril Genovo Гаврил Геново 337
Glavanovtsi Главановци 76
Govezhda Говежда 503
Kamenna Riksa Каменна Рикса 172
Kopilovtsi Копиловци 579
Melyane Меляне 187
Pomezhdin Помеждин 21
Vidlitsa Видлица 127
Total 3,022

Demography

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

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 8,739 6,524 5,577 4,462 3,419 3,216 3,022 2,739
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[6]

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 Georgi Damyanovo Municipality [7]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 97.9%
Catholicism
 
 0.3%
Protestantism
 
 0.2%
Islam
 
 0.0%
No religion
 
 0.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 1.2%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c (in Bulgarian)National Statistical Institute - Census 2011 Archived April 10, 2011, 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. ^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.