Pleven Province ( bg, Област Плевен or Плевенска Област) is a province located in central northern

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, bordering the

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river,

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and the Bulgarian provinces of

Vratsa Vratsa ( bg, Враца ) is the largest city in northwestern Bulgaria and the administrative and economic centre of the municipality of Vratsa and Vratsa district. It is located about 112 km north of Sofia, 40 km southeast of Montana. ...

Veliko Tarnovo Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, Велико Търново, Veliko Tărnovo, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred as the "''City of the Tsars''", Veliko Tarnovo ...

and

Lovech Lovech ( bg, Ловеч, Lovech, ) is a List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, city in north-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The city is located about northeast f ...

. It is divided into 11 subdivisions, called municipalities, that embrace a territory of with a population, as of February 2011, of 269 752 inhabitants.Census 2011
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Pleven Pleven ( bg, Плèвен ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest ...

Naming

The following

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terms may be used: * Плевенска област (''Plevenska oblast'') * Област Плевен (''Oblast Pleven'') * Плевенски окръг (''Plevenski okrag''), obsolete * Окръг Плевен (''Okrag Pleven''), obsolete

Geography

The province is part of the central Danubian Plain. It is crossed from south to north by the rivers Iskar, Vit and

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(in west-east order); the river valleys are separated by limestone plateaus.

Municipalities

The Pleven province (област, ''oblast'') contains 11 municipalities ( bg, община, translit=obshtina - plural: bg, общини, translit=obshtini, label=none). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and

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, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of December 2009.

Population

As of February 2011, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 266 144 of which are inhabitants aged over 60 years.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009
The following table represents the change of the population in the province after

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Ethnic groups

Total population (2011 census): 269,752 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves 240,265 persons: *

Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely understo ...

: 21,612 (91,40%) *

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

: 9,961 (4,15%) *

Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic ...

: 8,666 (3,61%) *Others and indefinable: 2,026 (0,84%) A further 30,000 persons in Pleven Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census. According to the 2001 census, the population of the province was 312,018, of which

constitute an overwhelming majority of 280,475. 16,931 signed as

(though this number very likely also includes Muslim

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) and 9,777 as Roma.

Languages

According to the 2001 census 283,626 people specified Bulgarian as their mother tongue, 14,947 declared to speak Turkish at home, while the native speakers of

were 8,861.

Religion

Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001

References

External links

Pleven Province
{{Authority control Provinces of Bulgaria