Dolni Chiflik Municipality

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Dolni Chiflik Municipality
Община Долни чифлик
Municipality
Dolni Chiflik Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Dolni Chiflik Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Coordinates: 42°58′N 27°41′E / 42.967°N 27.683°E / 42.967; 27.683Coordinates: 42°58′N 27°41′E / 42.967°N 27.683°E / 42.967; 27.683
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Varna
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Dolni Chiflik
Area
 • Total487 km2 (188 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total19,316
 • Density40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Dolni Chiflik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долни чифлик) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Chiflik.

The municipality spreads from Dalgopol Municipality in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the east. To the north the area is mostly defined by the Kamchiya river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 487 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 19,316 inhabitants.[1]

Settlements[]

Dolni Chiflik Municipality includes the following 17 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Dolni Chiflik Долни чифлик 6,706
Булаир 158
Бърдарево 87
Детелина 664
Голица 596
Горен чифлик 1,450
Гроздьово 2,389
Кривини 110
Нова Шипка 291
Ново Оряхово 206
Пчелник 1,614
Рудник 494
Солник 249
Старо Оряхово 2,713
Shkorpilovtsi Шкорпиловци 704
Венелин 818
Юнец 67
Total 19,316

Demography[]

The population of Dolni Chiflik Municipality is 20,217, of which 12,857 Bulgarians, 5,390 Turks and 717 Roma.

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

Dolni Chiflik Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 20,535 20,817 20,944 20,217 19,534 19,354 19,316 ...
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 Dolni Chiflik Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 66.8%
Catholicism
 
 0.5%
Protestantism
 
 0.3%
Islam
 
 15.1%
No religion
 
 7.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 9.9%

A majority of the population of Dolni Chiflik Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 66.8% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Muslims constitute the second largest religious group with 15.1% of the population.

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[permanent dead link]
  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.

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