Lom Municipality

For other uses, see Lom (disambiguation).

Lom Municipality Община Лом
Municipality
Lom Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province.
Coordinates: 43°48′N 23°16′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Montana
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Lom
Area
• Total	323.89 km^2 (125.05 sq mi)
Population  (Census February 2011)[1]
• Total	27,294
• Density	84/km^2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Lom Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лом) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre — the town of Lom which is one of the important Bulgarian river ports. The area borders Romania across the Danube.

The municipality encompasses a territory of 323.89 km² (125.05 sq mi) with a population of 27,294 inhabitants, as of February 2011.^[1]

Settlements

Lom Municipality within Montana Province

Montana

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Berkovitsa

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Boychinovtsi

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Brusartsi

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Chiprovtsi

•

Georgi Damyanovo

•

Lom

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Medkovets

•

Valchedram

•

Varshets

•

Yakimovo

Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Lom	Лом	24,300
Dobri Dol	Добри дол	334
Dolno Linevo	Долно Линево	266
Kovachitsa	Ковачица	1,255
Orsoya	Орсоя	133
Slivata	Сливата	225
Staliyska Mahala	Сталийска махала	1,369
Stanevo	Станево	364
Traykovo	Трайково	932
Zamfir	Замфир	1,020
Total		30,198

Demography

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

Lom Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	43,672	42,950	40,262	35,077	32,135	31,170	30,198	27,294
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[6]

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 Lom Municipality [7] Orthodox Christianity   56.3% Catholicism   0.4% Protestantism   6.1% Islam   0.1% No religion   8.0% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   29.1%

See also

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

References

1. (in Bulgarian) National Statistical Institute - Census 2011 Archived 2011-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
2. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 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. (in English) National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
6. „pop-stat.mashke.org“
7. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

• Official website (in Bulgarian)