Venets Municipality ( bg, Община Венец) is a

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('' obshtina'') in

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, Northeastern

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, located in the

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geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Venets. The municipality embraces a territory of 222.56 km² with a population of 6,905 inhabitants, as of December 2009.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
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Settlements

Venets Municipality includes the following 13 places, all of them are villages:

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during 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: Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute
The population is predominantly Turkish (89.0%), with

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(1.9%),

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(7.9%) and other minorities (1.1%).Ivanovo official web site
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Religion

The municipality of Venets has the second highest share of

Turks in Bulgaria Bulgarian Turks ( bg, български турци, bŭlgarski turtsi, tr, Bulgaristan Türkleri) are a Turkish people, Turkish ethnic group from Bulgaria. According to the 2021 census, there were 508,375 Bulgarians of Turkish descent, ro ...

with 89%, which makes it also the municipality with the second highest share of Muslims in Bulgaria, with 95% of its population belonging to the

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. The small Bulgarian population is mostly Christian.

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