Dolni Dabnik Municipality

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Dolni Dabnik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долни Дъбник) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Dabnik.

Dolni Dabnik Municipality
Община Долни Дъбник
Municipality
Dolni Dabnik Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Dolni Dabnik Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Coordinates: 43°24′N 24°26′E / 43.400°N 24.433°E / 43.400; 24.433
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Pleven
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Dolni Dabnik
Area
 • Total310 km2 (120 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total14,438
 • Density47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 310 km2 (120 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,438 inhabitants.[1]

Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Dolni DabnikДолни Дъбник4,761
BarkachБъркач760
Gorni DabnikГорни Дъбник1,914
GradinaГрадина842
KrushovitsaКрушовица2,051
PetarnitsaПетърница1,720
SadovetsСадовец2,390
Total14,438

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Dolni Dabnik Municipality
Year19751985199220012005200720092011
Population21,65318,64417,37715,70115,13714,81014,438...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

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:

Religious composition of Dolni Dabnik Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
74.8%
Catholicism
0.5%
Protestantism
0.6%
Islam
4.2%
No religion
12.7%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
6.2%

See also

References