Novo Selo Municipality, Bulgaria
Novo Selo Municipality
Община Ново село | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 44°8′N 22°47′E / 44.133°N 22.783°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province (Oblast) | Vidin |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Novo Selo |
Area | |
• Total | 109.5 km2 (42.3 sq mi) |
Population (April 2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,979 |
• Density | 27/km2 (70/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Website | obshtina-novoselo.com |
Novo Selo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ново село) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Novo Selo. The area borders on Romania beyond the Danube to the north.
The municipality embraces a territory of 109.5 km2 (42.3 sq mi) with a population of 2,979 inhabitants, as of the April 2011 census.[1]
Settlements
[edit]Novo Selo Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[1] |
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Novo Selo | Ново село | 1,015 |
Florentin | Флорентин | 352 |
Negovanovtsi | Неговановци | 398 |
Vinarovo | Винарово | 755 |
Yasen | Ясен | 259 |
Total | 2,979 |
Demography
[edit]The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Novo Selo Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 7,187 | 5,753 | 5,218 | 4,206 | 3,733 | 3,588 | 3,381 | 2,979 |
Sources: Census 2001,[2] Census 2011,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[3] |
Age structure
[edit]The municipality of Novo Selo has a fastly ageing population. As of December 2018 the share of elderly people (aged 65+) reached 43.4%, up from 41.7% in 2011. The share of children aged up to 14 years old declined from 8.6% tot 8.4% in the same period.
Age structure of Novo Selo Municipality [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Population | 0–4 | 5–9 | 10–14 | 15–19 | 20–24 | 25–29 | 30–34 | 35–39 | 40–44 | 45–49 | 50–54 | 55–59 | 60–64 | 65–69 | 70–74 | 75–79 | 80+ | |
February 2011 | 2,979 | 61 | 102 | 93 | 88 | 104 | 82 | 132 | 111 | 127 | 139 | 151 | 219 | 327 | 342 | 301 | 285 | 315 | |
December 2016 | 2,691 | 73 | 63 | 97 | 103 | 81 | 96 | 98 | 119 | 120 | 149 | 148 | 152 | 225 | 303 | 314 | 232 | 318 | |
December 2017 | 2,593 | 64 | 61 | 96 | 113 | 75 | 97 | 91 | 104 | 120 | 146 | 147 | 142 | 195 | 286 | 316 | 238 | 312 | |
December 2018 | 2,500 | 66 | 58 | 87 | 119 | 69 | 84 | 94 | 94 | 122 | 139 | 137 | 149 | 197 | 236 | 316 | 242 | 291 |
Ethnic composition
[edit]According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification (in total 2970), the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:[4]
Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
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Bulgarians | 2834 | 96.7% |
Turks | NA[a] | NA |
Roma (Gypsy) | 70 | 2.4% |
Other | 19 | 0.6% |
Undeclared | NA[a] | NA |
Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in the municipality of Novo Selo. Nearly all Romani people are concentrated in the village of Novo Selo. There is also a significant "Vlach" (Romanian) community, but their numbers are declining rapidly.
Religion
[edit]According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
An overwhelming majority of the population of Novo Selo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 94.0% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Population by province, municipality, settlement and age by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (in Bulgarian)
- ^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
- ^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
- ^ Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (in Bulgarian)
- ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
External links
[edit]- Info website (in English)