Beloslav Municipality

Beloslav Municipality Община Белослав
Municipality
Beloslav Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Coordinates: 43°10′N 27°41′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Varna
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Beloslav
Area
• Total	91.3 km^2 (35.3 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	11,257
• Density	120/km^2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Beloslav Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Белослав) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Beloslav.

The municipality embraces a territory of 91.3 km² (35.3 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 11,257 inhabitants.^[1]

Settlements

Beloslav Municipality within Varna Province

Varna

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Aksakovo

•

Avren

•

Beloslav

•

Byala

•

Vetrino

•

Valchi Dol

•

Dolni Chiflik

•

Devnya

•

Dalgopol

•

Provadiya

•

Suvorovo

Beloslav Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Beloslav	Белослав	7,937
Ezerovo	Езерово	1,845
Razdelna	Разделна	537
Strashimirovo	Страшимирово	938
Total		11,257

Demography

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

Beloslav Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	13,502	12,687	11,079	11,131	11,195	11,309	11,257	...
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 Beloslav Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   82.5% Catholicism   0.4% Protestantism   0.7% Islam   4.8% No religion   5.4% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   6.2%

An overwhelming majority of the population of Beloslav Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 82.5% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

References

1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
2. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
3. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
4. (in 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.
8. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

• Beloslav Municipality info-website (in English)