Medkovets Municipality
# Medkovets Municipality

Medkovets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Медковец) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the area of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Medkovets.

The municipality embraces a territory of 188 $km^2$ (73 sq mi) with a population of 3,939 inhabitants, as of February 2011.

## Settlements

Medkovets Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Medkovets | Медковец | 1,850 |
| Asparuhovo | Аспарухово | 556 |
| Pishurka | Пишурка | 124 |
| Rasovo | Расово | 1,297 |
| Slivovik | Сливовик | 483 |
| Total | | 4,310 |

## Demography

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

Medkovets Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 9,463 | 7,640 | 6,849 | 5,661 | 4,856 | 4,571 | 4,310 | 3,939 |
| 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 Medkovets Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

73.9%

Catholicism

0.2%

Protestantism

0.4%

Islam

0.0%

No religion

16.4%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

9.1% :

