Vetovo Municipality Explained

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.

Settlements

Vetovo Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2] [3] [4]
(December 2009)
VetovoВетово4,777
GlodzhevoГлоджево3,659
KrivnyaКривня630
PisanetsПисанец407
SenovoСеново1,580
SmirnenskiСмирненски2,685
Total13,738

Demography

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.

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. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  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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