| Venets Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Община Венец (Veletler Turkish) |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Shumen |
| Subdivision Name2: | Venets |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 43.5333°N 80°W |
| Area Total Km2: | 222.56 |
| Population As Of: | December 2009 |
| Population Total: | 6,905 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
Venets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Венец) is a municipality (obshtina) in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Venets.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 6,905 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
Venets Municipality includes the following 13 places, all of them are villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venets | Венец | 725 | |
| Bortsi | Борци | 540 | |
| Boyan | Боян | 412 | |
| Buynovitsa | Буйновица | 238 | |
| Chernoglavtsi | Черноглавци | 471 | |
| Dennitsa | Денница | 118 | |
| Drentsi | Дренци | 314 | |
| Gabritsa | Габрица | 441 | |
| Izgrev | Изгрев | 744 | |
| Kapitan Petko | Капитан Петко | 495 | |
| Osenovets | Осеновец | 382 | |
| Strahilitsa | Страхилица | 75 | |
| Yasenkovo | Ясенково | 1,950 | |
| Total | 6,905 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 122 | |||
| 5707 | |||
| 506 | |||
| Other | 3 | ||
| Undeclared | 73 |
The municipality of Venets has the second highest share of Turks in Bulgaria with 89%, which makes it also the municipality with the second highest share of Muslims in Bulgaria, with 95% of its population belonging to the Islamic community. The small Bulgarian population is mostly Christian.