Yablanitsa Municipality ( bg, Община Ябланица) is a small

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('' obshtina'') in

Lovech Province Lovech Province ( bg, Област Ловеч, translit=Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 200 ...

, Central-North

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, located in the area of the so-called

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, north of

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mountain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of

Yablanitsa Yablanitsa ( bg, Ябланица; also ''Jablanica'', ''Iablanica'', ''Yablanica'', ''Jablanitsa'', ''Iablanitsa'', ''Jablanitza'', ''Yablanitza'', ''Iablanitza'', ) is a small town in the westernmost part of Lovech Province, central-north Bulga ...

. The municipality embraces a territory of 276 km² with a population of 6,427 inhabitants, as of December 2009.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
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ends near the main town. The motorway is planned to connect the capital city of

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with the port of

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on the

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Settlements

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

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Vital statistics

The municipality of Yablanitsa has one of the highest

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in Bulgaria. Especially

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in some villages tend to have high

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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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