Tsenovo Municipality

Tsenovo Municipality
Община Ценово
Municipality
Tsenovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Ruse Province.
Tsenovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Ruse Province.
Coordinates: 43°33′N 25°36′E / 43.550°N 25.600°E / 43.550; 25.600
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Ruse
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Tsenovo
Area
 • Total
249.7 km2 (96.4 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
6,220
 • Density25/km2 (65/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Tsenovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ценово) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain where Yantra river flows into the Danube. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Tsenovo.

The municipality embraces a territory of 249.73 km2 (96.42 sq mi) with a population of 6,220 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Tsenovo Municipality includes the following 9 places, all of them villages:

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Tsenovo Ценово 1,673
Beltsov Белцов 473
Belyanovo Беляново 145
Dolna Studena Долна Студена 823
Dzhulyunitsa Джулюница 286
Karamanovo Караманово 995
Krivina Кривина 466
Novgrad Новград 954
Piperkovo Пиперково 405
Total 6,220

Demography

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

Tsenovo Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 12,857 10,875 9,472 7,975 7,023 6,639 6,220 ...
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 Tsenovo Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 81.1%
Catholicism
 
 0.7%
Protestantism
 
 0.9%
Islam
 
 5.4%
No religion
 
 6.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 5.5%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  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. ^ "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.