Devnya Municipality
# Devnya Municipality

Devnya Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Девня) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Devnya.

The municipality embraces a territory of 100.98 $km^2$ (38.99 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 9,234 inhabitants. The area is crossed by the east operating part of Hemus motorway which is planned to connect the port of Varna with the country capital - Sofia.

## Settlements

Devnya Municipality includes the following 3 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Devnya | Девня | 8,383 |
| Kipra | Кипра | 509 |
| Padina | Падина | 342 |
| Total | | 9,234 |

## Demography

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

Devnya Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 13,138 | 10,153 | 9,390 | 9,683 | 9,018 | 9,132 | 9,234 | ... |
| 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 Devnya Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

77.8%

Catholicism

0.3%

Protestantism

1.2%

Islam

5.3%

No religion

5.3%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

10.1% :

An overwhelming majority of the population of Devnya Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 77.8% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

