Ugarchin Municipality

Ugarchin Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Угърчин) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan to the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Ugarchin.

Ugarchin Municipality
Община Угърчин
Municipality
Ugarchin Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Ugarchin Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°06′N 24°25′E / 43.100°N 24.417°E / 43.100; 24.417
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Ugarchin
Area
 • Total523.10 km2 (201.97 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009[1])
 • Total7,181
 • Density14/km2 (36/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 523.10 km2 (201.97 sq mi) with a population of 7,181 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

  1. Dragana (Драгана)
  2. Golets (Голец)
  3. Kalenik (Каленик)
  4. Katunets (Катунец)
  5. Kirchevo (Кирчево)
  6. Lesidren (Лесидрен)
  7. Mikre (Микре)
  8. Orlyane (Орляне)
  9. Slavshtitsa (Славщица)
  10. Sopot (Сопот)
  11. Ugarchin (Угърчин)
Ugarchin municipality hall

Demography

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

Ugarchin Municipality
Year19751985199220012005200720092011
Population15,43012,40410,8168,5617,8697,5447,181...
Sources: Census 2001,[2] Census 2011,[3] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[4]

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 Ugarchin Municipality [5]
Orthodox Christianity
68.3%
Catholicism
0.8%
Protestantism
0.0%
Islam
1.5%
No religion
20.6%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
8.8%

See also

References