Kalipetrovo, previously named Stanchevo, is a village located in

Silistra Municipality Silistra Municipality ( bg, Община Силистра) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river, in the Danubian Plain, bounded by Romania to the northeast and ...

in north-eastern

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. Its area is 48.574 kilometers squared, making it the second largest village in the district. A census in 2001 determined that the village's population was 5,361 at the time, and the 2011 census determined that it was 4,266. The estimated population in December 2017 was 3,804. About 76% of the village's citizens are

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, with the majority of the remaining citizens being either

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Villages in Silistra Province {{Bulgaria-geo-stub