Tutrakan Municipality


Tutrakan Municipality is a municipality in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Tutrakan.
The municipality embraces a territory of 448.35 km² with a population of 16,920 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road 21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.
WWW tutrakan.bg

Settlements

Tutrakan Municipality includes the following 15 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
TutrakanТутракан9,476
AntimovoАнтимово60
BelitsaБелица612
BrenitsaБреница234
DunavetsДунавец20
Nova ChernaНова Черна1,763
PozharevoПожарево129
PreslavtsiПреславци574
Staro SeloСтаро село997
ShumentsiШуменци548
SyanovoСяново112
TarnovtsiТърновци447
Tsar SamuilЦар Самуил1,486
Tsarev DolЦарев дол81
VarnentsiВарненци381
Total16,920

Demography

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

Ethnic groups

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in Tutrakan Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people.

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: