Yablanitsa Municipality

Yablanitsa Municipality
Община Ябланица
Municipality

Yablanitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°3′N 24°5′E / 43.050°N 24.083°E / 43.050; 24.083Coordinates: 43°3′N 24°5′E / 43.050°N 24.083°E / 43.050; 24.083
Country  Bulgaria
Province (Oblast) Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) Yablanitsa
Area
 • Total 276 km2 (107 sq mi)
Population (December 2009)[1]
 • Total 6,427
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Yablanitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ябланица) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan, north of Stara Planina mountain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Yablanitsa.

The municipality embraces a territory of 276 km² with a population of 6,427 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

As of 2010, the west operating part of Hemus motorway ends near the main town. The motorway is planned to connect the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements

Lovech
•
Apriltsi


•
Troyan
•
Teteven
•
Lukovit
•
Ugarchin
•
Letnitsa
•
Yablanitsa
Yablanitsa Municipality within Lovech Province

Yablanitsa Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Yablanitsa Ябланица 2,896
Batultsi Батулци 205
Brestnitsa Брестница 1,062
Dobrevtsi Добревци 547
Dabravata Дъбравата 88
Golyama Brestnitsa Голяма Брестница 182
Malak Izvor Малък извор 243
Oreshene Орешене 332
Zlatna Panega Златна Панега 872
Total 6,427

Demography

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

Yablanitsa Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 9,411 8,243 7,532 6,902 6,705 6,556 6,427 ...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  2. ↑ (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  3. ↑ (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. ↑ (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. ↑ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. ↑ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. ↑ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
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