Popovo Municipality


Popovo Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the eastern part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Popovo.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 31,479 inhabitants, as of December 2009. The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the southern part of the area.
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Settlements

Popovo Municipality includes the following 34 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
PopovoПопово15,548
AprilovoАприлово614
Baba TonkaБаба Тонка111
BerkovskiБерковски108
BraknitsaБракница79
DoletsДолец90
Dolna KabdaДолна Кабда243
DrinovoДриново541
ElenovoЕленово481
GagovoГагово812
GloginkaГлогинка553
GoritsaГорица164
IvanchaИванча29
KonakКонак93
KozitsaКозица337
KardamКардам1,491
KovachevetsКовачевец691
LomtsiЛомци1,052
MarchinoМарчино124
MedovinaМедовина878
ManastiritsaМанастирица39
OsikovoОсиково205
PalamartsaПаламарца634
PosabinaПосабина250
PomoshtitsaПомощица120
SadinaСадина1,117
SlavyanovoСлавяново861
SvetlenСветлен1,208
TrastikaТръстика311
VoditsaВодица796
ZavetnoЗаветно114
ZaraevoЗараево981
ZvezdaЗвезда204
Zahari StoyanovoЗахари Стояново374
Total31,479

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Popovo Municipality has comprised the former municipalities of Sadina and Voditsa and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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
Bulgarians18531
Turks4556
Roma (Gypsy)959
Other155
Undeclared631

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: