Letnitsa Municipality Explained

Letnitsa Municipality
Native Name:Община Летница
Settlement Type:Municipality
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name1:Lovech
Subdivision Name2:Letnitsa
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Coordinates:43.2667°N 28°W
Area Total Km2:178
Population As Of:December 2009
Population Total:5,101
Population Density Km2:auto

Letnitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Летница) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Letnitsa.

The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 5,101 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Letnitsa Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2] [3] [4]
(December 2009)
LetnitsaЛетница3,739
Gorsko SlivovoГорско Сливово715
KrushunaКрушуна505
KarpachevoКърпачево142
Total5,101

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

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Notes and References

  1. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  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