Ugarchin Municipality
# Ugarchin Municipality

Ugarchin Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Угърчин) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan to the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Ugarchin.

The municipality embraces a territory of 523.10 $km^2$ (201.97 sq mi) with a population of 7,181 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

## Settlements

* Dragana (Драгана)
* Golets (Голец)
* Kalenik (Каленик)
* Katunets (Катунец)
* Kirchevo (Кирчево)
* Lesidren (Лесидрен)
* Mikre (Микре)
* Orlyane (Орляне)
* Slavshtitsa (Славщица)
* Sopot (Сопот)
* Ugarchin (Угърчин)

## Demography

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

Ugarchin Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 15,430 | 12,404 | 10,816 | 8,561 | 7,869 | 7,544 | 7,181 | ... |
| 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 Ugarchin Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

68.3%

Catholicism

0.8%

Protestantism

0.0%

Islam

1.5%

No religion

20.6%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

8.8% :

