Strelcha Municipality ( bg, Община Стрелча) is in southern
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 Macedo ...
, part of
Pazardzhik Province
Pazardzhik Province ( bg, Област Пазарджик ''Oblast Pazardzhik'', former name Pazardzhik okrug) is a province in Southern Bulgaria, named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Pazardzhik. The territory is ...
. The territory is part of
Sredna Gora
Sredna Gora ( bg, Средна гора ) is a mountain range in central Bulgaria, situated south of and parallel to the Balkan Mountains and extending from the Iskar to the west and the elbow of Tundzha north of Yambol to the east. Sredna Gora ...
mountain, with the lowest point 304 m
AMSL and the highest - 1,572 m AMSL. The railway connecting
Panagyurishte
Panagyurishte ( bg, Панагюрище, also transliterated ''Panagjurište'', ) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, situated in a small valley in the Sredna Gora mountains. It is 91 km east of Sofia, 43 km north of P ...
Town with
Plovdiv City passes through the municipality.
Settlements
Beyond the capital,
Strelcha Town, there are four villages in the municipality:
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Blatnitsa
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Dyulevo
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Smilets
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Svoboda
Demography
At the 2011 census, the population of Strelcha was 4,913. Most of the inhabitants (74.04%) were Bulgarians, and there was a significant minority of Gypsies/Romani (5.84%).
19.76% of the population's ethnicity was unknown.
External links
Strelcha municipality website
References
{{Pazardzhik Province
Municipalities in Pazardzhik Province