Slivo Pole Municipality

Slivo Pole Municipality

Община Сливо поле
Slivo Pole Municipality Община Сливо поле
Municipality
	Slivo Pole Municipality within Bulgaria and Ruse Province.
	Coordinates: 43°56′N 26°15′E / 43.933°N 26.250°E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Ruse
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Slivo Pole
Area
• Total	276 km2 (107 sq mi)
Population (December 2009)
• Total	11,635
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Slivo Pole Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Сливо поле) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Slivo Pole.

The municipality embraces a territory of 276 km² with a population of 11,635 inhabitants, as of December 2009.^[1]

The main road II-21 crosses the area from west to east, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the city of Silistra.

Settlements

Ruse

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Slivo Pole

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Borovo

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Byala

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Vetovo

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Dve Mogili

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Ivanovo

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Tsenovo

Slivo Pole Municipality includes the following 11 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population^[2]^[3]^[4] (December 2009)
Slivo Pole	Сливо поле	3,169
Babovo	Бабово	521
Borisovo	Борисово	787
Brashlen	Бръшлен	354
Chereshovo	Черешово	190
Golyamo Vranovo	Голямо Враново	1,688
Kosharna	Кошарна	626
Malko Vranovo	Малко Враново	984
Ryahovo	Ряхово	1,715
Stambolovo	Стамболово	697
Yudelnik	Юделник	904
Total		11,635

Demography

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

Slivo Pole Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	19,873	18,121	14,658	12,912	12,381	12,087	11,635	...
Sources: Census 2001,^[5] Census 2011,^[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,^[7]

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 Slivo Pole Municipality ^[8]

Orthodox Christianity			42.3%
Catholicism			0.0%
Protestantism			0.3%
Islam			48.8%
No religion			3.7%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable			4.9%

References

^ ^a ^b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

Official website (in English)

[divisions-1] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009

[statistika-2] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009

[villages_under_1000-3] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009

[Settlements_1000-5000-4] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009

[divisions_census_2001-5] (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001

[pop-stat-divisions-6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“

[7] "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.

[8] "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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