Lukovit Municipality Explained

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.

Settlements

Lukovit Municipality includes the following 12 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2] [3] [4]
(December 2009)
LukovitЛуковит9,630
AglenЪглен836
BezhanovoБежаново1,497
BelentsiБеленци448
DermantsiДерманци2,348
DabenДъбен149
KarlukovoКарлуково782
PetreveneПетревене690
PeshternaПещерна148
RumyantsevoРумянцево823
TodoricheneТодоричене499
TorosТорос1,619
Total19,469

Demography

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.

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. 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

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