Varna Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Варна |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Varna |
Subdivision Name2: | Varna |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43.1833°N 79°W |
Area Total Km2: | 237.5 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 15.03.2016 |
Population Total: | 373,601 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Varna Municipality (bg|Община Варна) is a seaside municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and near Varna lake. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Varna - which is also the capital of the homonymous province.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population, as of March 2016, of 373,601 inhabitants, the nation's second largest municipality after the Sofia Capital Municipality.[2]
Varna Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[3] [4] [5] (March 2016) | |
---|---|---|---|
Varna | Варна | 365,242 | |
Kazashko | Казашко | 362 | |
Kamenar | Каменар | 2,783 | |
Konstantinovo | Константиново | 1,225 | |
Topoli | Тополи | 2,995 | |
Zvezditsa | Звездица | 994 | |
Total | 373,601 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
Ethnic group | Population | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
290780 | |||
11089 | |||
3535 | |||
Other | 3481 | ||
Undeclared | 2315 |
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: