Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality


Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality is a municipality in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It embraces a territory of 674.81 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 21,304 inhabitants. The administrative centre of the area is the homonymous town of Dolna Mitropoliya.
The northern boundary of the municipality is the Danube River, and the 10,926 hectare Natura 2000 Reka Vit Special Protection Area for preservation of avian habitat is located there.

Settlements

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Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
Dolna Mitropoliya:bg:Долна Митрополия|Долна Митрополия3,303
Baykal:bg:Байкал |Байкал562
Bivolare:bg:Биволаре|Биволаре627
Bozhuritsa:bg:Божурица|Божурица1,102
Bregare:bg:Брегаре|Брегаре637
Gorna Mitropoliya:bg:Горна Митрополия|Горна Митрополия1,827
Gostilya:bg:Гостиля|Гостиля279
Komarevo:bg:Комарево |Комарево1,224
Krushovene:bg:Крушовене|Крушовене1,054
Orehovitsa:bg:Ореховица|Ореховица1,440
Pobeda:bg:Победа |Победа517
Podem:bg:Подем|Подем1,023
Riben:bg:Рибен|Рибен769
Slavovitsa:bg:Славовица |Славовица573
Stavertsi:bg:Ставерци|Ставерци1,848
Trastenik:bg:Тръстеник|Тръстеник4,519
Total21,304

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Podem 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: