Vetovo Municipality
Община Ветово
Municipality
Vetovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Ruse Province.
Vetovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Ruse Province.
Coordinates: 43°42′N 26°18′E / 43.700°N 26.300°E / 43.700; 26.300
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Ruse
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Vetovo
Area
 • Total352.52 km2 (136.11 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total13,738
 • Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Vetovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ветово) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the western parts of Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Vetovo.

The municipality embraces a territory of 352.52 km2 (136.11 sq mi) with a population of 13,738 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The main road E70 crosses the area in the western part of the municipality, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the city of Razgrad and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Vetovo Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Vetovo Ветово 4,777
Glodzhevo Глоджево 3,659
Krivnya Кривня 630
Pisanets Писанец 407
Senovo Сеново 1,580
Smirnenski Смирненски 2,685
Total 13,738

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Vetovo Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Senovo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Vetovo Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 12,089 11,583 18,230 18,774 15,707 15,367 13,738 ...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

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 Vetovo Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 35.2%
Catholicism
 
 0.1%
Protestantism
 
 0.0%
Islam
 
 58.6%
No religion
 
 1.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 5.0%

See also

References

  1. 1 2 (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. ↑ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. ↑ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. ↑ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. ↑ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  8. ↑ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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