Bregovo Municipality
# Bregovo Municipality

Bregovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Брегово) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Bregovo. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west and Romania beyond the Danube to the north and it is the most northwestern part of the country.

The municipality covers a territory of 180 $km^2$ (69 sq mi) with a population of 6,168 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

## Settlements

Bregovo Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Bregovo | Брегово | 2,592 |
| Baley | Балей | 453 |
| Deleyna | Делейна | 364 |
| Gamzovo | Гъмзово | 768 |
| Kalina | Калина | 38 |
| Kosovo | Косово | 452 |
| Kudelin | Куделин | 411 |
| Rakitnitsa | Ракитница | 480 |
| Tiyanovtsi | Тияновци | 171 |
| Vrav | Връв | 439 |
| Total | | 6,168 |

## Demography

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

Bregovo Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 12,144 | 10,243 | 9,231 | 7,515 | 6,725 | 6,539 | 6,168 | 5,514 |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### 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:

| Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
| - | - | - |
| Bulgarians | 5147 | 95.4% |
| Turks | 0 | 0% |
| Roma (Gypsy) | 152 | 2.8% |
| Other | 66 | 1.2% |
| Undeclared | 32 | 0.6% |

**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 Bregovo Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

83.9%

Catholicism

0.2%

Protestantism

0.1%

Islam

0.0%

No religion

6.1%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

9.7% :

An overwhelming majority of the population of Bregovo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 83.9% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

