Tutrakan Municipality
Община Тутракан | |
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Municipality | |
![]() Tutrakan Municipality within Bulgaria and Silistra Province. | |
Coordinates: 43°59′N 26°34′E / 43.983°N 26.567°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province (Oblast) | Silistra |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Tutrakan |
Area | |
• Total | 448.35 km2 (173.11 sq mi) |
Population (December 2009)[2] | |
• Total | 16,920 |
• Density | 38/km2 (98/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Tutrakan Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тутракан) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Tutrakan.
The municipality embraces a territory of 448.35[1] km² with a population of 16,920 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[2]
The main road 21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.
Settlements
[edit]Tutrakan Municipality includes the following 15 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[3][4][5] (December 2009) |
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Tutrakan | Тутракан | 9,476 |
Antimovo | Антимово | 60 |
Belitsa | Белица | 612 |
Brenitsa | Бреница | 234 |
Dunavets | Дунавец | 20 |
Nova Cherna | Нова Черна | 1,763 |
Pozharevo | Пожарево | 129 |
Preslavtsi | Преславци | 574 |
Staro Selo | Старо село | 997 |
Shumentsi | Шуменци | 548 |
Syanovo | Сяново | 112 |
Tarnovtsi | Търновци | 447 |
Tsar Samuil | Цар Самуил | 1,486 |
Tsarev Dol | Царев дол | 81 |
Varnentsi | Варненци | 381 |
Total | 16,920 |
Demography
[edit]The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Tutrakan Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 24,698 | 23,439 | 21,774 | 19,309 | 17,922 | 17,419 | 16,920 | ... |
Sources: Census 2001,[6] Census 2011,[7] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[8] |
Ethnic groups
[edit]Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in Tutrakan Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people.
Religion
[edit]According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b (in Bulgarian)Characterization of Silistra Province
- ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
- ^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
- ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
- ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Bulgarian)