Kula Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Кула |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Vidin |
Subdivision Name2: | Kula |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43.8833°N 54°W |
Area Total Km2: | 291 |
Population As Of: | December 2009 |
Population Total: | 4,958 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Kula Municipality (bg|Община Кула) is a municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 10 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Kula. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west.
The municipality embraces a territory of 291 km2 with a population of 4,958 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
Kula Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Kula | Кула | 3,287 | |
Chichil | Чичил | 82 | |
Golemanovo | Големаново | 136 | |
Izvor Mahala | Извор махала | 107 | |
Kosta Perchevo | Коста Перчево | 128 | |
Poletkovtsi | Полетковци | 62 | |
Staropatitsa | Старопатица | 387 | |
Topolovets | Тополовец | 378 | |
Tsar-Petrovo | Цар-Петрово | 391 | |
Total | 4,958 |
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:An overwhelming majority of the population of Kula Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 87.5% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.