Silistra Municipality


Silistra Municipality is a municipality in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river, in the Danubian Plain, bounded by Romania to the northeast and north beyond the river. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Silistra which is also the capital of the province.
The municipality has a territory of. As of December 2009, it had a population of 54,885.
Aside from the historical heritage of the main town, the area is best known with the Srebarna Nature Reserve around the lake of the same name. The main roads I-7, II-21 and II-71 crosses the municipality, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the cities of Shumen, Ruse and Dobrich.
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Settlements

Silistra Municipality includes the following 19 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
SilistraСилистра37,837
AydemirАйдемир6,655
BabukБабук580
BogorovoБогорово82
BradvariБрадвари1,022
BalgarkaБългарка150
GlavanГлаван104
KazimirКазимир138
KalipetrovoКалипетрово4,592
Polkovnik LambrinovoПолковник Ламбриново109
PopkralevoПопкралево83
Profesor IshirkovoПрофесор Иширково1,171
SmiletsСмилец439
SratsimirСрацимир327
SrebarnaСребърна689
SarpovoСърпово56
TsenovichЦенович53
VetrenВетрен217
YordanovoЙорданово581
Total54,885

Demography

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

Ethnic groups

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in Silistra Municipality. Turks constitute a large minority. There is also a relatively small Roma community.