Pazardzhik Municipality
# Pazardzhik Municipality

42°11′21″N 24°19′57″E﻿ / ﻿42.18917°N 24.33250°E﻿ / 42.18917; 24.33250 Pazardzhik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Пазарджик) is the second largest municipality in Pazardzhik Province, after Velingrad. It occupies 640 $km^2$ or 14.3% of the province. Its territory encompasses the westernmost parts of the Upper Thracian Plain and is famous for its fertility.

## Demography

The population of 134,295 lives in 32 settlements which include one town (Pazardzhik) and 31 villages.

### 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 Pazardzhik Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

83.3%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

1.7%

Islam

4.2%

No religion

3.8%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

6.6% :

