Byala Municipality
Община Бяла | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 42°52′N 27°48′E / 42.867°N 27.800°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province (Oblast) | Varna |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Byala |
Area | |
• Total | 162 km2 (63 sq mi) |
Population (December 2009)
[1] | |
• Total | 3,729 |
• Density | 23/km2 (60/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+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.
Byala Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population
[2]
[3]
[4] (December 2009) |
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Byala | Бяла | 2,171 |
Goritsa | Горица | 140 |
Gospodinovo | Господиново | 373 |
Dyulino | Дюлино | 396 |
Popovich | Попович | 646 |
Samotino | Самотино | 3 |
Total | 3,729 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Byala Municipality | ||||||||
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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] |
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.