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.
Borovo Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Borovo | Борово | 2,330 | |
Batin | Батин | 655 | |
Brestovitsa | Брестовица | 310 | |
Ekzarh Yosif | Екзарх Йосиф | 594 | |
Gorno Ablanovo | Горно Абланово | 1,160 | |
Obretenik | Обретеник | 1,495 | |
Volovo | Волово | 155 | |
Total | 6,699 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: