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]
Valchedram Municipality includes the following 11 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Valchedram | Вълчедръм | 3,817 | |
Botevo | Ботево | 77 | |
Bazovets | Бъзовец | 161 | |
Cherni Vrah | Черни връх | 534 | |
Dolni Tsibar | Долни Цибър | 1,544 | |
Gorni Tsibar | Горни Цибър | 205 | |
Ignatovo | Игнатово | 295 | |
Mokresh | Мокреш | 889 | |
Razgrad | Разград | 839 | |
Septemvriytsi | Септемврийци | 1,151 | |
Zlatia | Златия | 886 | |
Total | 10,398 |
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.
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: