Lukovit Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Луковит |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Lovech |
Subdivision Name2: | Lukovit |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43.1667°N 34°W |
Area Total Km2: | 454.22 |
Population As Of: | December 2009 |
Population Total: | 19,469 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Lukovit Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Луковит) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the Fore-Balkan area to the southern parts of Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Lukovit.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 19,469 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
The west operating part of Hemus motorway is planned to continue through the area linking the province centre Lovech.
Lukovit Municipality includes the following 12 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Lukovit | Луковит | 9,630 | |
Aglen | Ъглен | 836 | |
Bezhanovo | Бежаново | 1,497 | |
Belentsi | Беленци | 448 | |
Dermantsi | Дерманци | 2,348 | |
Daben | Дъбен | 149 | |
Karlukovo | Карлуково | 782 | |
Petrevene | Петревене | 690 | |
Peshterna | Пещерна | 148 | |
Rumyantsevo | Румянцево | 823 | |
Todorichene | Тодоричене | 499 | |
Toros | Торос | 1,619 | |
Total | 19,469 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Lukovit Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dermantsi and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: