Slivo Pole Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Сливо поле |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Ruse |
Subdivision Name2: | Slivo Pole |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43.9333°N 41°W |
Area Total Km2: | 276 |
Population As Of: | December 2009 |
Population Total: | 11,635 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Slivo Pole Municipality (bg|Община Сливо поле) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Slivo Pole.
The municipality embraces a territory of 276 km2 with a population of 11,635 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
The main road II-21 crosses the area from west to east, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the city of Silistra.
Slivo Pole Municipality includes the following 11 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Slivo Pole | Сливо поле | 3,169 | |
Babovo | Бабово | 521 | |
Borisovo | Борисово | 787 | |
Brashlen | Бръшлен | 354 | |
Chereshovo | Черешово | 190 | |
Golyamo Vranovo | Голямо Враново | 1,688 | |
Kosharna | Кошарна | 626 | |
Malko Vranovo | Малко Враново | 984 | |
Ryahovo | Ряхово | 1,715 | |
Stambolovo | Стамболово | 697 | |
Yudelnik | Юделник | 904 | |
Total | 11,635 |
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: