| Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Община Горна Оряховица |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Veliko Tarnovo |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gorna Oryahovitsa |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 43.15°N 67°W |
| Area Total Km2: | 318 |
| Population As Of: | December 2009 |
| Population Total: | 48,695 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality (bg|Община Горна Оряховица) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, central-north Bulgaria. It covers an area of with a total population of 48,695 people (as of 2009-12-31).[1] The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa, which is situated at the foot of Arbanashka Mountain, along the Yantra River.
The municipality has 14 settlements (2 towns and 12 villages).
Note: The place names in bold have the status of town (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad). Other localities have the status of village (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo). The names of localities are transliterated in Latin alphabet,[2] [3] followed in parentheses by the original name in Bulgarian Cyrillic (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).
| Town/Village | Cyrillic script | Population[4] [5] [6] (December 2009) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolna Oryahovitsa | Долна Оряховица | 3,027 | |
| Draganovo | Драганово | 2,730 | |
| Gorna Oryahovitsa | Горна Оряховица | 32,436 | |
| Gorski Dolen Trambesh | Горски Долен Тръмбеш | 381 | |
| Gorski Goren Trambesh | Горски Горен Тръмбеш | 202 | |
| Krusheto | Крушето | 947 | |
| Paisiy | Паисий | 197 | |
| Parvomaytsi | Първомайци | 2,829 | |
| Pisarevo | Писарево | 1,079 | |
| Поликрайще | 2,029 | ||
| Pravda | Правда | 637 | |
| Strelets | Стрелец | 379 | |
| Varbitsa | Върбица | 1,186 | |
| Yantra | Янтра | 636 | |
| Total | 48,695 |
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: