Dobrichka Municipality
# Dobrichka Municipality

Dobrichka municipality (Bulgarian: Община Добричка) or Dobrich rural municipality (Добрич-селска) is a municipality in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in Southern Dobruja geographical region. It lies in the central southern part of the province and is not to be confused with Dobrich municipality (equivalent to the town of Dobrich), which is an enclave within Dobrichka.

The municipality embraces a territory of 1,296.16 $km^2$ (500.45 sq mi) with a population of 24,292 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Although the city is not part of the municipality, the administration is headquartered in Dobrich.

## Settlements

Dobrichka municipality includes the following 68 villages:

* Altsek
* Batovo
* Bdintsi
* Benkovski
* Bogdan
* Bozhurovo
* Branishte
* Cherna
* Debrene
* Dobrevo
* Dolina
* Donchevo
* Draganovo
* Dryanovets
* Enevo
* Feldfebel Dyankovo
* General Kolevo
* Geshanovo
* Hitovo
* Kamen
* Karapelit
* Kotlentsi
* Kozloduytsi
* Kragulevo
* Lomnitsa
* Lovchantsi
* Lyaskovo
* Malka Smolnitsa
* Medovo
* Metodievo
* Miladinovtsi
* Novo Botevo
* Odartsi
* Odrintsi
* Opanets
* Orlova mogila
* Ovcharovo
* Paskalevo
* Pchelino
* Pchelnik
* Plachi Dol
* Pobeda
* Podslon
* Polkovnik Ivanovo
* Polkovnik Minkovo
* Polkovnik Sveshtarovo
* Popgrigorovo
* Prilep
* Primortsi
* Rosenovo
* Samuilovo
* Svoboda
* Slaveevo
* Sliventsi
* Smolnitsa
* Sokolnik
* Stefan Karadzha
* Stefanovo
* Stozher
* Tsarevets
* Tyanevo
* Vedrina
* Vladimirovo
* Vodnyantsi
* Vrachantsi
* Vratarite
* Zhitnitsa
* Zlatia

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last two decades. Dobrichka Municipality was separated from Dobrich Municipality in 1987.

Dobrichka rural Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | --- | --- | 28,710 | 25,736 | 25,351 | 25,066 | 24,292 | 22,081 |
| 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 Dobrichka Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

55.8%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

0.5%

Islam

29.8%

No religion

2.9%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

10.6% :

