The municipality embraces a territory of 872 km2 (337 sq mi) with a population of 60,497 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1] The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area north of the main city.
Settlements
Targovishte Municipality within Targovishte Province
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Vabel, Targovishte.
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Targovishte Municipality has comprised the former municipalities of Dralfa and Makariopolsko and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
Targovishte Municipality
Year
1975
1985
1992
2001
2005
2007
2009
2011
Population
62,069
66,502
70,355
60,890
62,188
61,458
60,497
57,264
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]
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:
The religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, according to the 2011 census, was the following: 58,8% is a member of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which makes Bulgarian Orthodox Christians the largest religious group in the municipality. The second largest religious group, with 30,1% of the total population, is the Muslim minority (Islam in Bulgaria). Around 7,5% preferred not to answer and a further 2,8% had no religion.[9]
Religions in Targovishte Municipality (2011 census)
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