Boychinovtsi Municipality


Boychinovtsi Municipality is a municipality in Montana Province, Northwestern 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 Boychinovtsi.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 9,137 inhabitants, as of February 2011.
Ogosta river, a right tributary of the Danube, flows through the area from southwest to northeast.
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Settlements

Boychinovtsi Municipality includes the following 13 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
BoychinovtsiБойчиновци1,648
Beli BregБели брег119
Beli BrodБели брод247
ErdenЕрден561
GromshinГромшин865
KobilyakКобиляк339
LehchevoЛехчево1,922
MadanМадан861
MarchevoМърчево905
OhridОхрид474
PalilulaПалилула70
PortitovtsiПортитовци451
VladimirovoВладимирово1,453
Total9,915

Demography

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