Boychinovtsi Municipality

Municipality in Montana, Bulgaria

Boychinovtsi Municipality

Община Бойчиновци

Municipality

Boychinovtsi Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province.

Coordinates: 43°31′N 23°23′E﻿ / ﻿43.517°N 23.383°E﻿ / 43.517; 23.383
Country|  Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)| Montana
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)| Boychinovtsi
Area

• Total

| 307.32 km2 (118.66 sq mi)
Population

(Census February 2011)[1]

• Total

| 9,137
• Density| 30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+3 (EEST)

Boychinovtsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Бойчиновци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Boychinovtsi.

The municipality embraces a territory of 307.32 km2 (118.66 sq mi) with a population of 9,137 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]

Ogosta river, a right tributary of the Danube, flows through the area from southwest to northeast.

## Settlements

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Boychinovtsi Municipality within Montana Province

Montana

Berkovitsa

Boychinovtsi

Brusartsi

Chiprovtsi

Georgi Damyanovo

Lom

Medkovets

Valchedram

Varshets

Yakimovo

Boychinovtsi Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village  | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)

|
|

Boychinovtsi | Бойчиновци | 1,648
Beli Breg | Бели брег  | 119
Beli Brod | Бели брод  | 247
Erden | Ерден  | 561
Gromshin | Громшин  | 865
Kobilyak | Кобиляк  | 339
Lehchevo | Лехчево  | 1,922
Madan | Мадан  | 861
Marchevo | Мърчево  | 905
Ohrid | Охрид  | 474
Palilula | Палилула  | 70
Portitovtsi | Портитовци  | 451
Vladimirovo | Владимирово  | 1,453
Total  |  | 9,915

## Demography

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The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Boychinovtsi Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Lehchevo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Boychinovtsi Municipality

Year | 1975  | 1985  | 1992  | 2001 | 2005  | 2007  | 2009  | 2011
Population | 12,848  | 10,070  | 14,242  | 12,258  | 11,062  | 10,466  | 9,915  | 9,137
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[6]

### Religion

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According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

| Religious composition of Boychinovtsi Municipality [7]

|  |
Orthodox Christianity |

| 80.5%
Catholicism |

| 0.2%
Protestantism |

| 0.9%
Islam |

| 0.1%
No religion |

| 9.8%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable |

| 8.5%

## See also

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* Provinces of Bulgaria
* Municipalities of Bulgaria
* List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

## References

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1. ^ a b c (in Bulgarian)National Statistical Institute - Census 2011
2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
4. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
5. ^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
6. ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
7. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

## External links

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* Official website (in Bulgarian)

Places adjacent to Boychinovtsi Municipality

| Yakimovo Municipality, Montana Province | Valchedram Municipality, Montana Province | Hayredin Municipality, Vratsa Province

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Municipalities of Montana Province

* Berkovitsa
* Boychinovtsi
* Brusartsi
* Chiprovtsi
* Georgi Damyanovo
* Lom
* Medkovets
* Montana
* Valchedram
* Varshets
* Yakimovo

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