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Letnitsa Municipality

Coordinates: 43°16′N 25°3′E / 43.267°N 25.050°E / 43.267; 25.050
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Letnitsa Municipality
Община Летница
Municipality
Letnitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Letnitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°16′N 25°3′E / 43.267°N 25.050°E / 43.267; 25.050
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Letnitsa
Area
 • Total178 km2 (69 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total5,101
 • Density29/km2 (74/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Letnitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Летница) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Letnitsa.

The municipality embraces a territory of 178 km2 (69 sq mi) with a population of 5,101 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

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Letnitsa Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Letnitsa Летница 3,739
Gorsko Slivovo Горско Сливово 715
Krushuna Крушуна 505
Karpachevo Кърпачево 142
Total 5,101

Demography

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

Letnitsa Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 8,043 7,201 6,752 5,607 5,392 5,258 5,101 ...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

Religion

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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 Letnitsa Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
71.2%
Catholicism
1.0%
Protestantism
0.0%
Islam
10.0%
No religion
9.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
8.7%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 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.
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