Popovo Municipality ( bg, Община Попово) is a

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('' obshtina'') in

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, Northeastern

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, located in the eastern part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Popovo. The municipality embraces a territory of 833 km² with a population of 31,479 inhabitants, as of December 2009.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
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is planned to cross the southern part of the area.

Settlements

Popovo Municipality includes the following 34 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Popovo Municipality has comprised the former municipalities of

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and Voditsa and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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: Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute

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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