Vidin Municipality
# Vidin Municipality

Vidin Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Видин) is a municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Vidin which is also the capital of the province.

The municipality embraces a territory of 501 $km^2$ (193 sq mi) with a population of 66,126 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road E79 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin with the city of Montana and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway.

## Settlements

Vidin Municipality includes the following 34 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Vidin | Видин | 49,471 |
| Akatsievo | Акациево | 112 |
| Antimovo | Антимово | 616 |
| Bela Rada | Бела Рада | 608 |
| Botevo | Ботево | 82 |
| Bukovets | Буковец | 772 |
| Dinkovitsa | Динковица | 152 |
| Dolni Boshnyak | Долни Бошняк | 77 |
| Druzhba | Дружба | 220 |
| Dunavtsi | Дунавци | 2,743 |
| Gaytantsi | Гайтанци | 118 |
| General Marinovo | Генерал Мариново | 185 |
| Gomotartsi | Гомотарци | 798 |
| Gradets | Градец | 1,476 |
| Ivanovtsi | Ивановци | 113 |
| Inovo | Иново | 735 |
| Kalenik | Каленик | 279 |
| Kapitanovtsi | Капитановци | 1,186 |
| Koshava | Кошава | 415 |
| Kutovo | Кутово | 837 |
| Mayor Uzunovo | Майор Узуново | 334 |
| Novoseltsi | Новоселци | 879 |
| Peshakovo | Пешаково | |
| Plakuder | Плакудер | 94 |
| Pokrayna | Покрайна | 1,301 |
| Ruptsi | Рупци | 165 |
| Sinagovtsi | Синаговци | 430 |
| Slana Bara | Слана бара | 537 |
| Slanotran | Сланотрън | 595 |
| Tarnyane | Търняне | 166 |
| Tsar Simeonovo | Цар Симеоново | 115 |
| Voynitsa | Войница | 123 |
| Vartop | Въртоп | 97 |
| Zheglitsa | Жеглица | 194 |
| Total | | 66,126 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Vidin Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dunavtsi and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Vidin Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 76,522 | 82,147 | 85,963 | 77,500 | 71,222 | 68,302 | 66,126 | 63,257 |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnicity

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:

| Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
| - | - | - |
| Bulgarians | 54546 | 92.4% |
| Turks | 66 | 0.1% |
| Roma (Gypsy) | 3753 | 6.4% |
| Other | 322 | 0.5% |
| Undeclared | 345 | 0.6% |

### 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 Vidin Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

84.3%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

1.4%

Islam

0.1%

No religion

7.1%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

6.7% :

An overwhelming majority of the population of Vidin Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 84.3% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

