Georgi Damyanovo Municipality
# Georgi Damyanovo Municipality

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Георги Дамяново) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located on the northern slopes of western Stara Planina mountain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Georgi Damyanovo. In the southwest, the municipality borders on Republic of Serbia.

The municipality embraces a territory of 298 $km^2$ (115 sq mi) with a population of 2,739 inhabitants, as of February 2011.

## Settlements

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality includes the following 13 places all of them villages:

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Georgi Damyanovo | Георги Дамяново | 566 |
| Chemish | Чемиш | 81 |
| Diva Slatina | Дива Слатина | 131 |
| Dalgi Del | Дълги дел | 191 |
| Elovitsa | Еловица | 51 |
| Gavril Genovo | Гаврил Геново | 337 |
| Glavanovtsi | Главановци | 76 |
| Govezhda | Говежда | 503 |
| Kamenna Riksa | Каменна Рикса | 172 |
| Kopilovtsi | Копиловци | 579 |
| Melyane | Меляне | 187 |
| Pomezhdin | Помеждин | 21 |
| Vidlitsa | Видлица | 127 |
| Total | | 3,022 |

## Demography

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

Georgi Damyanovo Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 8,739 | 6,524 | 5,577 | 4,462 | 3,419 | 3,216 | 3,022 | 2,739 |
| 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 Georgi Damyanovo Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

97.9%

Catholicism

0.3%

Protestantism

0.2%

Islam

0.0%

No religion

0.4%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

1.2% :

