Venets Municipality
Venets Municipality is a municipality in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Venets.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 6,905 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
Settlements
Venets Municipality includes the following 13 places, all of them are villages:| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population |
| Venets | Венец | 725 |
| Bortsi | Борци | 540 |
| Boyan | Боян | 412 |
| Buynovitsa | Буйновица | 238 |
| Chernoglavtsi | Черноглавци | 471 |
| Dennitsa | Денница | 118 |
| Drentsi | Дренци | 314 |
| Gabritsa | Габрица | 441 |
| Izgrev | Изгрев | 744 |
| Kapitan Petko | Капитан Петко | 495 |
| Osenovets | Осеновец | 382 |
| Strahilitsa | Страхилица | 75 |
| Yasenkovo | Ясенково | 1,950 |
| Total | 6,905 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.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 group | Population | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | 122 | |
| Turks | 5707 | |
| Roma | 506 | |
| Other | 3 | |
| Undeclared | 73 |
The population is predominantly Turkish, with Bulgarian, Romani and other minorities.