Vidin Municipality

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Vidin Municipality
Община Видин
Municipality
Vidin Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
Vidin Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
Coordinates: 43°59′N 22°48′E / 43.983°N 22.800°E / 43.983; 22.800Coordinates: 43°59′N 22°48′E / 43.983°N 22.800°E / 43.983; 22.800
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Vidin
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Vidin
Area
 • Total501 km2 (193 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total66,126
 • Density130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Vidin Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Видин) is a municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Vidin which is also the capital of the province.

The municipality embraces a territory of 501 km² with a population of 66,126 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The main road E79 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin with the city of Montana and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements[]

Vidin Municipality includes the following 34 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Vidin Видин 49,471
Akatsievo Акациево 112
Антимово 616
Бела Рада 608
Ботево 82
Буковец 772
Динковица 152
Долни Бошняк 77
Дружба 220
Dunavtsi Дунавци 2,743
Гайтанци 118
Генерал Мариново 185
Гомотарци 798
Градец 1,476
Ивановци 113
Иново 735
Kalenik Каленик 279
Капитановци 1,186
Кошава 415
Кутово 837
Майор Узуново 334
Новоселци 879
Пешаково
Плакудер 94
Покрайна 1,301
Рупци 165
Синаговци 430
Слана бара 537
Сланотрън 595
Търняне 166
Цар Симеоново 115
Войница 123
Въртоп 97
Жеглица 194
Total 66,126

Demography[]

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Vidin Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dunavtsi and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Vidin Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 76,522 82,147 85,963 77,500 71,222 68,302 66,126 63,257
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

Ethnic composition[]

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:[8]

Ethnic group Population Percentage
Bulgarians 54546 92.4%
Turks 66 0.1%
Roma (Gypsy) 3753 6.4%
Other 322 0.5%
Undeclared 345 0.6%

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 Vidin Municipality [9]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 84.3%
Catholicism
 
 0.4%
Protestantism
 
 1.4%
Islam
 
 0.1%
No religion
 
 7.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 6.7%

An overwhelming majority of the population of Vidin Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 84.3% 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
  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. ^ Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (in Bulgarian)
  9. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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