Teteven Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Тетевен |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Lovech |
Subdivision Name2: | Teteven |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 42.8667°N 41°W |
Area Total Km2: | 697 |
Population As Of: | December 2009 |
Population Total: | 22,016 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Teteven Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тетевен) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Teteven.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 22,016 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
The main road E772 crosses the area through the northernmost parts of the municipality.
Teteven Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Teteven | Тетевен | 10,613 | |
Babintsi | Бабинци | 272 | |
Balgarski Izvor | Български извор | 1,304 | |
Cherni Vit | Черни Вит | 722 | |
Divchovoto | Дивчовото | 187 | |
Galata | Галата | 2,532 | |
Glogovo | Глогово | 1,472 | |
Glozhene | Гложене | 1,059 | |
Golyam Izvor | Голям извор | 529 | |
Gradezhnitsa | Градежница | 1,789 | |
Malka Zhelyazna | Малка Желязна | 144 | |
Ribaritsa | Рибарица | 1,137 | |
Vasilyovo | Васильово | 256 | |
Total | 22,016 |
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: