Kula Municipality, Bulgaria
# Kula Municipality, Bulgaria

Kula Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Кула) is a municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 10 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Kula. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west.

The municipality embraces a territory of 291 $km^2$ with a population of 4,958 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

## Settlements

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

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Kula | Кула | 3,287 |
| Chichil | Чичил | 82 |
| Golemanovo | Големаново | 136 |
| Izvor Mahala | Извор махала | 107 |
| Kosta Perchevo | Коста Перчево | 128 |
| Poletkovtsi | Полетковци | 62 |
| Staropatitsa | Старопатица | 387 |
| Topolovets | Тополовец | 378 |
| Tsar-Petrovo | Цар-Петрово | 391 |
| Total | | 4,958 |

## Demography

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

Kula Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 12,266 | 10,079 | 8,648 | 6,792 | 5,563 | 5,237 | 4,958 | 4,717 |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### 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:

Religious composition of Kula Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

87.5%

Catholicism

0.2%

Protestantism

0.2%

Islam

0.0%

No religion

8.1%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

4.0% :

An overwhelming majority of the population of Kula Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 87.5% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

