Byala Municipality, Varna Province

Byala Municipality
Община Бяла
Municipality
Byala Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Byala Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Coordinates: 42°52′N 27°48′E / 42.867°N 27.800°E / 42.867; 27.800
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Varna
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Byala
Area
 • Total
162 km2 (63 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
3,729
 • Density23/km2 (60/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Byala Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Бяла) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, located in the central part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Byala.

The municipality embraces a territory of 162 km2 (63 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 3,729 inhabitants.[1]

Not to be confused with the municipality of the same name in Ruse Province.

Settlements

Byala Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Byala Бяла 2,171
Goritsa Горица 140
Gospodinovo Господиново 373
Dyulino Дюлино 396
Popovich Попович 646
Samotino Самотино 3
Total 3,729

Demography

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

Byala Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 4,346 4,065 3,787 3,413 3,349 3,780 3,729 ...
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 Byala Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 75.3%
Catholicism
 
 0.0%
Protestantism
 
 0.5%
Islam
 
 2.3%
No religion
 
 12.7%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 9.2%

An overwhelming majority of the population of Byala Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 75.3% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (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.

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