Provadia Municipality
# Provadia Municipality

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

The municipality embraces a territory of 576.6 $km^2$ (222.6 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 23,045 inhabitants.

## Settlements

Provadia Municipality includes the following 25 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Provadia | Провадия | 12,901 |
| Blaskovo | Блъсково | 1,354 |
| Bozveliysko | Бозвелийско | 1,296 |
| Barzitsa | Бързица | 270 |
| Chayka | Чайка | 94 |
| Cherkovna | Черковна | 240 |
| Chernook | Черноок | 247 |
| Dobrina | Добрина | 256 |
| Gradinarovo | Градинарово | 801 |
| Hrabrovo | Храброво | 439 |
| Kiten | Китен | 52 |
| Komarevo | Комарево | 463 |
| Krivnya | Кривня | 400 |
| Manastir | Манастир | 563 |
| Nenovo | Неново | 69 |
| Ovchaga | Овчага | 184 |
| Petrov Dol | Петров дол | 344 |
| Ravna | Равна | 179 |
| Slaveykovo | Славейково | 476 |
| Snezhina | Снежина | 570 |
| Staroselets | Староселец | 62 |
| Tutrakantsi | Тутраканци | 249 |
| Venchan | Венчан | 338 |
| Tziganitza | Циганица | 950 |
| Zlatina | Златина | 248 |
| Total | | 23,045 |

## Demography

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

Provadia Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 31,461 | 28,893 | 28,414 | 25,718 | 24,573 | 23,747 | 23,045 | ... |
| 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 Provadia Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

61.6%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

0.8%

Islam

10.5%

No religion

10.2%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

16.5% :

A majority of the population of Provadia Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 61.6% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

