Dolni Chiflik Municipality
# Dolni Chiflik Municipality

Dolni Chiflik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долни чифлик) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Chiflik.

The municipality spreads from Dalgopol Municipality in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the east. To the north the area is mostly defined by the Kamchiya river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 487 $km^2$ (188 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 19,316 inhabitants.

## Settlements

Dolni Chiflik Municipality includes the following 17 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Dolni Chiflik | Долни чифлик | 6,706 |
| Bulair | Булаир | 158 |
| Bardarevo | Бърдарево | 87 |
| Detelina | Детелина | 664 |
| Golitsa | Голица | 596 |
| Goren Chiflik | Горен чифлик | 1,450 |
| Grozdyovo | Гроздьово | 2,389 |
| Krivini | Кривини | 110 |
| Nova Shipka | Нова Шипка | 291 |
| Novo Oryahovo | Ново Оряхово | 206 |
| Pchelnik | Пчелник | 1,614 |
| Rudnik | Рудник | 494 |
| Solnik | Солник | 249 |
| Staro Oryahovo | Старо Оряхово | 2,713 |
| Shkorpilovtsi | Шкорпиловци | 704 |
| Venelin | Венелин | 818 |
| Yunets | Юнец | 67 |
| Total | | 19,316 |

## Demography

The population of Dolni Chiflik Municipality is 20,217, of which 12,857 Bulgarians, 5,390 Turks and 717 Roma.

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

Dolni Chiflik Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 20,535 | 20,817 | 20,944 | 20,217 | 19,534 | 19,354 | 19,316 | ... |
| 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 Dolni Chiflik Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

66.8%

Catholicism

0.5%

Protestantism

0.3%

Islam

15.1%

No religion

7.4%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

9.9% :

A majority of the population of Dolni Chiflik Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 66.8% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Muslims constitute the second largest religious group with 15.1% of the population.

