Lom Municipality
# Lom Municipality

Lom Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лом) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre — the town of Lom which is one of the important Bulgarian river ports. The area borders Romania across the Danube.

The municipality encompasses a territory of 323.89 $km^2$ (125.05 sq mi) with a population of 27,294 inhabitants, as of February 2011.

## Settlements

Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Lom | Лом | 24,300 |
| Dobri Dol | Добри дол | 334 |
| Dolno Linevo | Долно Линево | 266 |
| Kovachitsa | Ковачица | 1,255 |
| Orsoya | Орсоя | 133 |
| Slivata | Сливата | 225 |
| Staliyska Mahala | Сталийска махала | 1,369 |
| Stanevo | Станево | 364 |
| Traykovo | Трайково | 932 |
| Zamfir | Замфир | 1,020 |
| Total | | 30,198 |

## Demography

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

Lom Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 43,672 | 42,950 | 40,262 | 35,077 | 32,135 | 31,170 | 30,198 | 27,294 |
| 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 Lom Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

56.3%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

6.1%

Islam

0.1%

No religion

8.0%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

29.1% :

