Lom Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Лом |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Montana |
Subdivision Name2: | Lom |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43.8°N 39°W |
Area Total Km2: | 323.89 |
Population As Of: | Census February 2011 |
Population Total: | 27,294 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Lom Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лом) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre — the town of Lom which is one of the important Bulgarian river ports. The area borders Romania across the Danube.
The municipality encompasses a territory of with a population of 27,294 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]
Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Lom | Лом | 24,300 | |
Dobri Dol | Добри дол | 334 | |
Dolno Linevo | Долно Линево | 266 | |
Kovachitsa | Ковачица | 1,255 | |
Orsoya | Орсоя | 133 | |
Slivata | Сливата | 225 | |
Staliyska Mahala | Сталийска махала | 1,369 | |
Stanevo | Станево | 364 | |
Traykovo | Трайково | 932 | |
Zamfir | Замфир | 1,020 | |
Total | 30,198 |
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: