Dalgopol Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Дългопол |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Varna |
Subdivision Name2: | Dalgopol |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43°N 47°W |
Area Total Km2: | 442 |
Population As Of: | December 2009 |
Population Total: | 14,364 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Dalgopol Municipality (bg|Община Дългопол) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dalgopol.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,364 inhabitants.[1] The area contains the Tsonevo Reservoir - the third biggest in the country, developed along the Luda Kamchiya river which is the main tributary of Kamchiya river that crosses the municipality from west to east.
Dalgopol Municipality includes the following 16 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Dalgopol | Дългопол | 4,829 | |
Arkovna | Арковна | 98 | |
Asparuhovo | Аспарухово | 652 | |
Boryana | Боряна | 283 | |
Kamen Dyal | Камен дял | 217 | |
Komunari | Комунари | 103 | |
Krasimir | Красимир | 85 | |
Lopushna | Лопушна | 909 | |
Medovets | Медовец | 1,689 | |
Partizani | Партизани | 1,113 | |
Polyatsite | Поляците | 833 | |
Royak | Рояк | 259 | |
Sava | Сава | 272 | |
Sladka Voda | Сладка вода | 49 | |
Tsonevo | Цонево | 2,403 | |
Velichkovo | Величково | 557 | |
Total | 14,364 |
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:The municipality of Dalgopol has a mixed religious composition. At the 2011 census, 49.5% of respondents identified as Muslims and 41.7% as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.