Vetovo Municipality | |
Native Name: | Община Ветово |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Ruse |
Subdivision Name2: | Vetovo |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43.7°N 44°W |
Area Total Km2: | 352.52 |
Population As Of: | December 2009 |
Population Total: | 13,738 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Vetovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ветово) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the western parts of Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Vetovo.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 13,738 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
The main road E70 crosses the area in the western part of the municipality, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the city of Razgrad and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.
Vetovo Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2] [3] [4] (December 2009) | |
---|---|---|---|
Vetovo | Ветово | 4,777 | |
Glodzhevo | Глоджево | 3,659 | |
Krivnya | Кривня | 630 | |
Pisanets | Писанец | 407 | |
Senovo | Сеново | 1,580 | |
Smirnenski | Смирненски | 2,685 | |
Total | 13,738 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Vetovo Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Senovo 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: