Valchedram Municipality Explained

Valchedram Municipality
Native Name:Община Вълчедръм
Settlement Type:Municipality
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name1:Vidin
Subdivision Name2:Valchedram
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Coordinates:43.7167°N 53°W
Area Total Km2:429
Population As Of:Census February 2011
Population Total:9,771
Population Density Km2:auto

Valchedram Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Вълчедръм) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Valchedram. The area borders on Romania beyond the Danube to the north.

The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 9,771 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]

Settlements

Valchedram Municipality includes the following 11 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2] [3] [4]
(December 2009)
ValchedramВълчедръм3,817
BotevoБотево77
BazovetsБъзовец161
Cherni VrahЧерни връх534
Dolni TsibarДолни Цибър1,544
Gorni TsibarГорни Цибър205
IgnatovoИгнатово295
MokreshМокреш889
RazgradРазград839
SeptemvriytsiСептемврийци1,151
ZlatiaЗлатия886
Total10,398

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Valchedram Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Zlatiya 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. National Statistical Institute - Census 2011
  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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