Lom Municipality Explained

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]

Settlements

Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2] [3] [4]
(December 2009)
LomЛом24,300
Dobri DolДобри дол334
Dolno LinevoДолно Линево266
KovachitsaКовачица1,255
OrsoyaОрсоя133
SlivataСливата225
Staliyska MahalaСталийска махала1,369
StanevoСтанево364
TraykovoТрайково932
ZamfirЗамфир1,020
Total30,198

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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