Kaspichan Municipality ( bg, Община Каспичан) 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

Shumen Province Shumen Province ( bg, Област Шумен, transliterated ''Oblast Shumen'', former name Shumen okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria named after its main city Shumen. It is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population, as ...

, Northeastern

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

Kaspichan Kaspichan ( bg, Каспичан, ) is a town in central northeastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province. It is located in the eastern Danubian Plain, some from the major Black Sea port Varna and around from the key Danube ports of Ruse and Sil ...

. The municipality embraces a territory of 279 km² with a population of 8,871 inhabitants as of December 2009.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
The area is crossed from east to west by the eastern operating section of

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which is planned to connect the port of

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with the capital

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

Settlements

Kaspichan Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography

The following table illustrates the population change over the last four decades.

Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:

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:

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