Lukovit Municipality

Lukovit Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Луковит) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the Fore-Balkan area to the southern parts of Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Lukovit.

Lukovit Municipality

Община Луковит
Municipality
Lukovit Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°10′N 24°10′E
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Lukovit
Area
  Total454.22 km2 (175.38 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
  Total19,469
  Density43/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 454.22 km² with a population of 19,469 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The west operating part of Hemus motorway is planned to continue through the area linking the province centre Lovech.

Settlements

Lukovit Municipality includes the following 12 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Lukovit Луковит 9,630
Aglen Ъглен 836
Bezhanovo Бежаново 1,497
Belentsi Беленци 448
Dermantsi Дерманци 2,348
Daben Дъбен 149
Karlukovo Карлуково 782
Petrevene Петревене 690
Peshterna Пещерна 148
Rumyantsevo Румянцево 823
Todorichene Тодоричене 499
Toros Торос 1,619
Total 19,469

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Lukovit Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dermantsi and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Lukovit Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 16,973 15,631 23,783 21,466 20,371 19,934 19,469 ...
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 Lukovit Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
65.0%
Catholicism
0.8%
Protestantism
4.6%
Islam
2.8%
No religion
13.3%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
13.3%

See also

References

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