Dalgopol Municipality ( bg, Община Дългопол) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

('' obshtina'') in

Varna Province Varna Province ( bg, Област Варна, translit=Oblast Varna), formerly known as Varna okrug, is a province in eastern Bulgaria, one of the 28 Bulgarian provinces. It comprises 12 municipalities with a population of 494,216 inhabitants as ...

, Northeastern

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of

Dalgopol Dalgopol ( bg, Дългопол, ; also transliterated ''Dǎlgopol'') is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province. It is the administrative centre of Dalgopol Municipality, which lies in the southwestern part of the Province. As of ...

. The municipality embraces a territory of 442 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,364 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
The area contains the

Tsonevo Reservoir Tsonevo Reservoir is a reservoir located in the valley of the Luda Kamchia River, 1 km from the village of Tsonevo. The reservoir ranks third in size in Bulgaria with water service of 17300 decameters. Its old name was ''Georgi Traikov''. It ...

- the third biggest in the country, developed along the

Luda Kamchiya Luda Kamchiya ( bg, Луда Камчия , ) is a river in eastern Bulgaria, the main tributary of the Kamchiya river.Victor Fet, Alexi Popov; Biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria; 2007p.601/ref> The river has a total length of 180 km and a ...

river which is the main tributary of

Kamchiya The Kamchiya (also Kamchia and Kamčija, bg, Камчия ) is a river in eastern Bulgaria. From its longest source, Golyama Kamchiya (Big Kamchiya), it has a total length of (. The river Kamchiya proper starts from the confluence of the two ...

river that crosses the municipality from west to east.

Settlements

Dalgopol Municipality includes the following 16 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography

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

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: The municipality of Dalgopol has a mixed religious composition. At the 2011 census, 49.5% of respondents identified as

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...

and 41.7% as

Orthodox Christians Orthodoxy (from Greek: ) is adherence to correct or accepted creeds, especially in religion. Orthodoxy within Christianity refers to acceptance of the doctrines defined by various creeds and ecumenical councils in Antiquity, but different Churc ...

belonging to the

Bulgarian Orthodox Church The Bulgarian Orthodox Church ( bg, Българска православна църква, translit=Balgarska pravoslavna tsarkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria ( bg, Българска патриаршия, links=no, translit=Balgarsk ...

References

External links

Official website
{{Varna Province Municipalities in Varna Province

Settlements

Demography

Religion

See also

References

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