Kaspichan Municipality
# Kaspichan Municipality

Kaspichan Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Каспичан) is a municipality (obshtina) in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre, the town of Kaspichan.

The municipality embraces a territory of 279 $km^2$ (108 sq mi) with a population of 8,871 inhabitants as of December 2009. The area is crossed from east to west by the eastern operating section of Hemus motorway which is planned to connect the port of Varna with the capital Sofia.

## Settlements

Kaspichan Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Kaspichan | Каспичан | 3,260 |
| Kaspichan (village) | Каспичан | 1,602 |
| Kosovo | Косово | 387 |
| Kyulevcha | Кюлевча | 496 |
| Markovo | Марково | 792 |
| Mogila | Могила | 408 |
| Pliska | Плиска | 1,051 |
| Varbyane | Върбяне | 288 |
| Zlatna niva | Златна нива | 587 |
| Total | | 8,871 |

## Demography

The following table illustrates the population change over the last four decades.

Kaspichan Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 14,418 | 13,154 | 10,483 | 9,808 | 9,405 | 9,219 | 8,871 | 7,916 |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:

| Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
| - | - | - |
| Bulgarians | 4,935 | 67.3% |
| Turks | 1,073 | 14.6% |
| Roma (Gypsy) | 925 | 12.6% |
| Others | 292 | 4% |
| Undeclared | 103 | 1.4% |

**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 Kaspichan Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

68.6%

Catholicism

0.0%

Protestantism

0.6%

Islam

18.2%

No religion

4.3%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

8.3% :

