| Ruse Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Община Русе |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ruse |
| Subdivision Name2: | Ruse |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 43.8167°N 27°W |
| Area Total Km2: | 469.17 |
| Population As Of: | December 2009 |
| Population Total: | 175,210 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
Ruse Municipality (bg|Община Русе) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Ruse which is also a capital of the province.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 175,210 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
Apart from the cultural heritage of the main city, the area is best known with the Danube Bridge, the first bridge over the Danube in Bulgaria.
The main roads E85, E70 and II-21 crosses the municipality, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the cities of Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven, Razgrad and Silistra.
Ruse Municipality includes the following 14 places (towns are shown in bold):
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruse | Русе | 156,509 | |
| Basarabovo | Басарбово | 1,349 | |
| Bazan | Бъзън | 1,221 | |
| Chervena Voda | Червена вода | 1,529 | |
| Dolno Ablanovo | Долно Абланово | 214 | |
| Hotantsa | Хотанца | 823 | |
| Marten | Мартен | 3,691 | |
| Nikolovo | Николово | 3,004 | |
| Novo Selo | Ново село | 1,176 | |
| Prosena | Просена | 634 | |
| Sandrovo | Сандрово | 1,308 | |
| Semerdzhievo | Семерджиево | 1,132 | |
| Tetovo | Тетово | 2,303 | |
| Yastrebovo | Ястребово | 317 | |
| Total | 175,210 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Ruse Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Novo Selo 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: