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.
Byala Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
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.