Pavlikeni Municipality
# Pavlikeni Municipality

Pavlikeni Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Павликени) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Pavlikeni.

The municipality embraces a territory of 622.56 $km^2$ (240.37 sq mi) with a population of 26,342 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

## Settlements

Pavlikeni Municipality includes the following 20 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Pavlikeni | Павликени | 11,151 |
| Batak | Батак | 951 |
| Butovo | Бутово | 922 |
| Byala Cherkva | Бяла Черква | 2,612 |
| Dolna Lipnitsa | Долна Липница | 806 |
| Dimcha | Димча | 411 |
| Daskot | Дъскот | 488 |
| Gorna Lipnitsa | Горна Липница | 646 |
| Karaisen | Караисен | 1,210 |
| Lesicheri | Лесичери | 571 |
| Mihaltsi | Михалци | 952 |
| Musina | Мусина | 242 |
| Nedan | Недан | 1,384 |
| Patresh | Патреш | 572 |
| Paskalevets | Паскалевец | 315 |
| Rositsa | Росица | 169 |
| Slomer | Сломер | 454 |
| Stambolovo | Стамболово | 831 |
| Vishovgrad | Вишовград | 367 |
| Varbovka | Върбовка | 1,288 |
| Total | | 26,342 |

## Demography

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

Pavlikeni Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 40,805 | 36,709 | 35,238 | 31,312 | 28,845 | 27,592 | 26,342 | ... |
| 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 Pavlikeni Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

78.5%

Catholicism

0.5%

Protestantism

0.5%

Islam

5.7%

No religion

7.7%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

7.1% :

