Varshets Municipality
# Varshets Municipality

Varshets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Вършец) is a municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located on the northern slopes of the western Stara planina mountain to the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Varshets.

The municipality embraces a territory of 240 $km^2$ (93 sq mi) with a population of 8,108 inhabitants, as of February 2011.

Todorini Kukli peak, 1,785 m (5,856 ft), is located in the southwestern part of the area almost on the very border with Berkovitsa Municipality.

## Settlements

Varshets Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Varshets | Вършец | 6,538 |
| Cherkaski | Черкаски | 316 |
| Dolna Bela Rechka | Долна Бела речка | 99 |
| Dolno Ozirovo | Долно Озирово | 477 |
| Draganitsa | Драганица | 260 |
| Gorna Bela Rechka | Горна Бела речка | 83 |
| Gorno Ozirovo | Горно Озирово | 382 |
| Spanchevtsi | Спанчевци | 367 |
| Stoyanovo | Стояново | 81 |
| Total | | 8,605 |

## Demography

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

Varshets Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 12,119 | 11,453 | 11,062 | 9,870 | 9,031 | 8,860 | 8,605 | 8,108 |
| 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 Varshets Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

75.7%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

1.2%

Islam

0.0%

No religion

18.5%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

4.2% :

