Byala Municipality, Varna Province
# Byala Municipality, Varna Province

Byala Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Бяла) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, located in the central part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Byala.

The municipality embraces a territory of 162 $km^2$ (63 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 3,729 inhabitants.

Not to be confused with the municipality of the same name in Ruse Province.

## Settlements

Byala Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Byala | Бяла | 2,171 |
| Goritsa | Горица | 140 |
| Gospodinovo | Господиново | 373 |
| Dyulino | Дюлино | 396 |
| Popovich | Попович | 646 |
| Samotino | Самотино | 3 |
| Total | | 3,729 |

## Demography

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

Byala Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 4,346 | 4,065 | 3,787 | 3,413 | 3,349 | 3,780 | 3,729 | ... |
| 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 Byala Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

75.3%

Catholicism

0.0%

Protestantism

0.5%

Islam

2.3%

No religion

12.7%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

9.2% :

An overwhelming majority of the population of Byala Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 75.3% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

