Novo Selo Municipality, Bulgaria


Novo Selo Municipality is a frontier municipality in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Novo Selo. The area borders on Romania beyond the Danube to the north.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 2,979 inhabitants, as of the April 2011 census.
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Settlements

Novo Selo Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
Novo SeloНово село1,015
FlorentinФлорентин352
NegovanovtsiНеговановци398
VinarovoВинарово755
YasenЯсен259
Total2,979

Demography

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

Age structure

The municipality of Novo Selo has a fastly ageing population. As of December 2018 the share of elderly people reached 43.4%, up from 41.7% in 2011. The share of children aged up to 14 years old declined from 8.6% tot 8.4% in the same period.

Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
Ethnic groupPopulationPercentage
Bulgarians2834
TurksNANA
Roma (Gypsy)70
Other19
UndeclaredNANA

Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in the municipality of Novo Selo. Nearly all Romani people are concentrated in the village of Novo Selo. There is also a significant "Vlach" community, but their numbers are declining rapidly.

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:
An overwhelming majority of the population of Novo Selo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 94.0% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.