The municipality embraces a territory of 237.5 km2 (91.7 sq mi) with a population, as of March 2016, of 373,601 inhabitants, the nation's second largest municipality after the Sofia Capital Municipality.[2]
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Varna Municipality
Year
1975
1985
1992
2001
2005
2007
2009
2011
Population
257,254
308,053
315,336
320,668
319,800
322,114
329,173
343,704
Sources: Census 2001,[6] Census 2011,[7] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[8]
Ethnic composition
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: