Georgi Damyanovo Municipality Explained

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality
Native Name:Община Георги Дамяново
Settlement Type:Municipality
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name1:Montana
Subdivision Name2:Georgi Damyanovo
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Coordinates:43.3167°N 23°W
Area Total Km2:298
Population As Of:Census February 2011
Population Total:2,739
Population Density Km2:auto

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Георги Дамяново) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located on the northern slopes of western Stara Planina mountain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Georgi Damyanovo. In the southwest, the municipality borders on Republic of Serbia.

The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 2,739 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]

Settlements

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality includes the following 13 places all of them villages:

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2] [3] [4]
(December 2009)
Georgi DamyanovoГеорги Дамяново566
ChemishЧемиш81
Diva SlatinaДива Слатина131
Dalgi DelДълги дел191
ElovitsaЕловица51
Gavril GenovoГаврил Геново337
GlavanovtsiГлавановци76
GovezhdaГовежда503
Kamenna RiksaКаменна Рикса172
KopilovtsiКопиловци579
MelyaneМеляне187
PomezhdinПомеждин21
VidlitsaВидлица127
Total3,022

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. National Statistical Institute - Census 2011
  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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