Letnitsa Municipality
# Letnitsa Municipality

Letnitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Летница) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Letnitsa.

The municipality embraces a territory of 178 $km^2$ (69 sq mi) with a population of 5,101 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

## Settlements

Letnitsa Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Letnitsa | Летница | 3,739 |
| Gorsko Slivovo | Горско Сливово | 715 |
| Krushuna | Крушуна | 505 |
| Karpachevo | Кърпачево | 142 |
| Total | | 5,101 |

## Demography

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

Letnitsa Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 8,043 | 7,201 | 6,752 | 5,607 | 5,392 | 5,258 | 5,101 | ... |
| 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 Letnitsa Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

71.2%

Catholicism

1.0%

Protestantism

0.0%

Islam

10.0%

No religion

9.1%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

8.7% :

