- Source: Alfatar Municipality
Alfatar Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Алфатар) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain, in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region, about 15 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Alfatar.
The municipality embraces a territory of 248.57 km2 (95.97 sq mi) with a population of 3,324 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road "7" crosses the area from north to south, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Shumen and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.
Settlements
Alfatar Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
= Ethnic groups
=Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the majority of the population of Alfatar Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people in Bulgaria.
= 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:
= Vital statistics
=See also
Provinces of Bulgaria
Municipalities of Bulgaria
List of cities and towns in Bulgaria
References
External links
Official website (in Bulgarian)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Alfatar Municipality
- Alfatar
- Silistra Province
- Municipalities of Bulgaria
- Vasil Levski (disambiguation)
- Glavinitsa Municipality
- Harsovska reka
- Silistra Municipality
- Tutrakan Municipality
- Provadia
