Krushari Municipality

Krushari Municipality
Община Крушари
Municipality
Krushari Municipality within Bulgaria and Dobrich Province.
Krushari Municipality within Bulgaria and Dobrich Province.
Coordinates: 43°51′N 27°45′E / 43.850°N 27.750°E / 43.850; 27.750
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Dobrich
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Krushari
Area
 • Total
417.5 km2 (161.2 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
5,296
 • Density13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Krushari Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Крушари) is a municipality (obshtina) in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in Southern Dobruja geographical region, bounded by Romania to the north. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Krushari.

The municipality embraces a territory of 417.5 km2 (161.2 sq mi) with a population of 5,296 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Krushari Municipality includes the following 19 places, all of them are villages:

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Krushari Крушари 1592
Abrit Абрит 285
Aleksandria Александрия 147
Bistrets Бистрец 112
Dobrin Добрин 185
Efreytor Bakalovo Ефрейтор Бакалово 292
Gaber Габер 123
Kapitan Dimitrovo Капитан Димитрово 134
Koriten Коритен 326
Lozenets Лозенец 607
Ognyanovo Огняново 34
Polkovnik Dyakovo Полковник Дяково 304
Poruchik Kurdjievo Поручик Кърджиево 54
Severnyak Северняк 178
Severtsi Северци 203
Telerig Телериг 514
Zagortsi Загорци 156
Zementsi Земенци 29
Zimnitsa Зимница 21
Total 5,296

Demography

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

Krushari Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 10,657 8,594 7,243 5,924 5,852 5,617 5,296 ...
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 Krushari Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 43.3%
Catholicism
 
 0.8%
Protestantism
 
 0.0%
Islam
 
 36.5%
No religion
 
 5.7%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 13.7%

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.