Dimovo Municipality


Dimovo Municipality is a municipality in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dimovo.
The municipality embraces a territory of 402.87 km² with a population of 7,175 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road E79 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin with the city of Montana and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Dimovo Municipality includes the following 23 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
DimovoДимово1,211
Арчар2,603
BelaБела120
Dalgo PoleДълго поле27
DarzhanitsaДържаница107
Gara OreshetsГара Орешец819
IzvorИзвор311
KarbintsiКарбинци241
KladorubКладоруб44
KostichovtsiКостичовци114
LagoshevtsiЛагошевци89
Mali DrenovetsМали Дреновец83
MedovnitsaМедовница327
OreshetsОрешец15
OstrokaptsiОстрокапци98
SeptemvriytsiСептемврийци251
SkomlyaСкомля43
ShipotШипот76
VladichentsiВладиченци80
VodnyantsiВоднянци279
VarbovchetsВърбовчец94
YanyovetsЯньовец33
YarlovitsaЯрловица110
Total7,175

Demography

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

Vital statistics

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:
An overwhelming majority of the population of Dimovo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 91.1% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.