Straldzha ( bg, Стралджа ) is a small

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Yambol Province Yambol ( bg, област Ямбол, ''oblast Yambol'', former name Yambol okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria, neighbouring Turkey to the south. It is named after its main city Yambol, while other towns include Straldzha, Bolyarovo ...

, Southeastern

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. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous

Straldzha Municipality Straldzha ( bg, Стралджа ) is a small town in Yambol Province, Southeastern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Straldzha Municipality. As of December 2016, the town has a population of 6,326 inhabitants. The munici ...

. As of December 2016, the town has a population of 6,326 inhabitants. The municipality of Straldzha is home to 12,014 people at the end of 2016: 6,326 of whom live in the city of Straldzha and 5,688 in the villages. It has a relatively high

crude birth rate The birth rate for a given period is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; populati ...

of 13,8‰ and a very high

fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

of 3,01 children per woman, nearly two times higher than the national rate of 1,54 children per woman (at the end of 2016). The reason for this high fertility rate is the large concentration of ethnic

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in the municipality of Straldzha (nearly one-fifth of the population belong to the Romani community, which is exceeding four times the national average). The small town is a hub for

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and

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. Many residents however go to work and study in bigger cities , or abroad , due to the lack of opportunities and the toxicity that small towns like these bring. During the communism era , Straldzha was a growing town with many factories and workers from the villages nearby. A bus line and a natural spring park, that attracted many visitors in the region, which was demolished and removed, now the

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neighbourhood .

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20060103050226/http://www.straldja.net/ Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Yambol Province {{Yambol-geo-stub