Shabla Municipality
# Shabla Municipality

Shabla Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Шабла) is a municipality (obshtina) in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria, located in the north-easternmost part of the country on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region, bounded by Romania to the north. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Shabla.

The municipality embraces a territory of 329.64 $km^2$ (127.27 sq mi) with a population of 5,580 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area is best known with Cape Shabla - Bulgaria's easternmost point as well as the natural reserve of Durankulak Lake. The main road E87 crosses the municipality connecting the port of Varna with the Romanian port of Konstanza.

## Settlements

Shabla Municipality includes the following 16 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Shabla | Шабла | 3,586 |
| Bozhanovo | Божаново | 15 |
| Chernomortsi | Черноморци | 80 |
| Durankulak | Дуранкулак | 455 |
| Ezerets | Езерец | 183 |
| Gorichane | Горичане | 95 |
| Gorun | Горун | 105 |
| Granichar | Граничар | 163 |
| Krapets | Крапец | 378 |
| Prolez | Пролез | 56 |
| Smin | Смин | 78 |
| Staevtsi | Стаевци | 8 |
| Tvarditsa | Твърдица | 11 |
| Tyulenovo | Тюленово | 59 |
| Vaklino | Ваклино | 195 |
| Zahari Stoyanovo | Захари Стояново | 113 |
| Total | | 5,580 |

## Demography

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

Shabla Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 9,261 | 8,375 | 7,508 | 6,380 | 5,959 | 5,759 | 5,580 | ... |
| 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 Shabla Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

86.0%

Catholicism

0.6%

Protestantism

0.0%

Islam

1.9%

No religion

2.7%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

8.8% :

