Suhindol Municipality


Suhindol Municipality is a small municipality in Veliko Tarnovo Province, central-north 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 Suhindol.
The municipality embraces a territory of 157.55 km² with a population of 3,046, as of December 2009.
The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements

Suhindol Municipality includes the following 6 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
SuhindolСухиндол2,146
Byala RekaБяла река252
Gorsko KalugerovoГорско Калугерово171
Gorsko KosovoГорско Косово166
KoevtsiКоевци194
Krasno GradishteКрасно градище117
Total3,046

Demography

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

Vital statistics

The municipality of Suhindol has a low birth rate combined with a very high death rate, which makes the natural growth negative.

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: