Valchi Dol Municipality

Municipality in Varna, Bulgaria

Valchi Dol Municipality Община Вълчи Дол
Municipality
Valchi Dol Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Coordinates: 43°24′N 27°33′E / 43.400°N 27.550°E / 43.400; 27.550
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Varna
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Valchi Dol
Area
• Total	472.5 km² (182.4 sq mi)
Population (December 2009)^[1]
• Total	11,093
• Density	23/km² (61/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Valchi Dol Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Вълчи Дол) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Valchi Dol.

The municipality embraces a territory of 472.5 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 11,093 inhabitants.^[1]

Settlements

Varna

•

Aksakovo

•

Avren

•

Beloslav

•

Byala

•

Vetrino

•

Valchi Dol

•

Dolni Chiflik

•

Devnya

•

Dalgopol

•

Provadiya

•

Suvorovo

Valchi Dol Municipality includes the following 22 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population^[2]^[3]^[4] (December 2009)
Valchi Dol	Вълчи дол	3,460
Boyana	Бояна	282
Brestak	Брестак	1,029
Cherventsi	Червенци	573
Dobrotich	Добротич	410
General Kiselovo	Генерал Киселово	518
General Kolevo	Генерал Колево	325
Esenitsa	Есеница	345
Iskar	Искър	147
Izvornik	Изворник	213
Kaloyan	Калоян	294
Karamanite	Караманите	331
Krakra	Кракра	34
Metlichina	Метличина	189
Mihalich	Михалич	753
Oborishte	Оборище	315
Radan Voyvoda	Радан войвода	387
Shtipsko	Щипско	221
Stefan Karadzha	Стефан Караджа	854
Strahil	Страхил	75
Voyvodino	Войводино	264
Zvanets	Звънец	74
Total		11,093

Demography

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

Valchi Dol Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	20,014	16,497	14,792	12,973	12,061	11,595	11,093	...
Sources: Census 2001,^[5] Census 2011,^[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,^[7]

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:

Religious composition of Vlachi Dol Municipality ^[8]

Orthodox Christianity			56.0%
Catholicism			0.5%
Protestantism			0.5%
Islam			26.3%
No religion			3.7%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable			13.0%

A majority of the population of Vlachi Dol Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 56.0% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Muslims constitute the largest minority with 26.3% of its population.

References

^ ^a ^b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
^ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.