Ruzhintsi Municipality

Ruzhintsi Municipality
Община Ружинци
Municipality
Ruzhintsi Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
Ruzhintsi Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
Coordinates: 43°36′N 22°52′E / 43.600°N 22.867°E / 43.600; 22.867
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Vidin
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Ruzhintsi
Area
 • Total
232 km2 (90 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
4,890
 • Density21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Ruzhintsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ружинци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 8 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Ruzhintsi.

The municipality embraces a territory of 232 km2 (90 sq mi) with a population of 4,890 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The main road E79 crosses the southern parts of the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin with the city of Montana and respectively with the western operating part of the Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Ruzhintsi Municipality includes the following 10 places all of them villages:

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Ruzhintsi Ружинци 915
Belo Pole Бело поле 929
Cherno Pole Черно поле 283
Dinkovo Динково 158
Drazhintsi Дражинци 219
Drenovets Дреновец 1,517
Gyurgich Гюргич 278
Pleshivets Плешивец 247
Roglets Роглец 27
Topolovets Тополовец 317
Total 4,890

Demography

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

Ruzhintsi Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 9,722 7,740 7,101 6,061 5,423 5,166 4,890 4,374
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 Ruzhintsi Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 82.8%
Catholicism
 
 0.4%
Protestantism
 
 0.6%
Islam
 
 0.1%
No religion
 
 9.5%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 6.6%

An overwhelming majority of the population of Ruzhintsi Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 82.8% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  3. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. ^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  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.