Apriltsi Municipality
# Apriltsi Municipality

Apriltsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Априлци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Apriltsi.

The municipality embraces a territory of 240 $km^2$ (93 sq mi) with a population of 3,554 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area covers parts of the Central Balkan National Park which is listed as Category 2 by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).

## Settlements

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

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Apriltsi | Априлци | 3,207 |
| Drashkova Polyana | Драшкова поляна | 101 |
| Skandaloto | Скандалото | 67 |
| Velchevo | Велчево | 179 |
| Total | | 3,554 |

## Demography

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

Apriltsi Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 6,203 | 5,313 | 4,720 | 4,137 | 3,788 | 3,647 | 3,554 | ... |
| 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 Apriltsi Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

96.8%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

0.0%

Islam

0.2%

No religion

1.2%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

1.4% :

