Suvorovo Municipality
Община Суворово | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 43°19′N 27°37′E / 43.317°N 27.617°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province (Oblast) | Varna |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Suvorovo |
Area | |
• Total | 216 km2 (83 sq mi) |
Population (December 2009)
[1] | |
• Total | 7,544 |
• Density | 35/km2 (90/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Suvorovo Municipality ( Bulgarian: Община Суворово) is a municipality ( obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Suvorovo.
The municipality embraces a territory of 216 km2 (83 sq mi) with a population of 7,544 inhabitants, as of December 2009. [1]
Suvorovo Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population
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[3]
[4] (December 2009) |
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Suvorovo | Суворово | 4,723 |
Banovo | Баново | 137 |
Chernevo | Чернево | 1,386 |
Drandar | Дръндар | 185 |
Izgrev | Изгрев | 210 |
Kalimantsi | Калиманци | 214 |
Levski | Левски | 173 |
Nikolaevka | Николаевка | 494 |
Prosechen | Просечен | 22 |
Total | 7,544 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Suvorovo Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 9,410 | 8,273 | 7,913 | 7,658 | 7,115 | 7,293 | 7,544 | ... |
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:
A majority of the population of Suvorovo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 59.7% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Muslims constitute the largest minority with 17.9% of the population.