Svoge Municipality
Община Своге
Municipality
Country Bulgaria
ProvinceSofia Province
SeatSvoge

Svoge Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Своге, romanized: Obština Svoge) is located in western Bulgaria and is a part of Sofia Province. It covers a territory of 868,6 km2 and has a population of around 21,000 people, more than 1/3 of which lives in the town of Svoge itself. The municipality also includes 37 villages. The municipality is one of the largest by area in the country. It neighbours Montana Province, Vratsa Province & Sofia (City of) province.

Demographics

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition of Svoge Municipality was the following:

Religious composition of Svoge Municipality [1]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 71.33%
Catholicism
 
 0.25%
Protestantism
 
 0.15%
Islam
 
 0.06%
Other
 
 0.05%
No religion
 
 0.99%
Not stated
 
 2.1%
Unknown
 
 25.0%

Populated places

References

  1. ↑ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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