Borovo Municipality, Bulgaria Explained

Borovo Municipality
Native Name:Община Борово
Settlement Type:Municipality
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name1:Ruse
Subdivision Name2:Borovo
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Coordinates:43.5833°N 71°W
Area Total Km2:245.3
Population As Of:December 2009
Population Total:6,699
Population Density Km2:auto

Borovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Борово) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Borovo.

The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 6,699 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The main road E85 crosses the area from south to north, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the cities of Veliko Tarnovo and respectively Pleven and Sofia.

Settlements

Borovo Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2] [3] [4]
(December 2009)
BorovoБорово2,330
BatinБатин655
BrestovitsaБрестовица310
Ekzarh YosifЕкзарх Йосиф594
Gorno AblanovoГорно Абланово1,160
ObretenikОбретеник1,495
VolovoВолово155
Total6,699

Demography

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

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:

See also

References

  1. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  2. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  3. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009

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