Georgi Damyanovo Municipality Община Георги Дамяново | |
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Municipality | |
 Georgi Damyanovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province. | |
| Coordinates:43°19′N23°0′E / 43.317°N 23.000°E /43.317; 23.000 | |
| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Province(Oblast) | Montana |
| Admin. centre(Obshtinski tsentar) | Georgi Damyanovo |
| Area | |
• Total | 298 km2 (115 sq mi) |
| Population (Census February 2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,739 |
| • Density | 9.19/km2 (23.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Georgi Damyanovo Municipality (Bulgarian:Община Георги Дамяново) is a frontiermunicipality (obshtina) inMontana Province, NorthwesternBulgaria, located on the northern slopes of westernStara Planina mountain and the area of the so-calledFore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the village ofGeorgi Damyanovo. In the southwest, the municipality borders onRepublic of Serbia.
The municipality embraces a territory of 298 km2 (115 sq mi) with a population of 2,739 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]
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Georgi Damyanovo Municipality includes the following 13 places all of them villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4] (December 2009) |
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| Georgi Damyanovo | Георги Дамяново | 566 |
| Chemish | Чемиш | 81 |
| Diva Slatina | Дива Слатина | 131 |
| Dalgi Del | Дълги дел | 191 |
| Elovitsa | Еловица | 51 |
| Gavril Genovo | Гаврил Геново | 337 |
| Glavanovtsi | Главановци | 76 |
| Govezhda | Говежда | 503 |
| Kamenna Riksa | Каменна Рикса | 172 |
| Kopilovtsi | Копиловци | 579 |
| Melyane | Меляне | 187 |
| Pomezhdin | Помеждин | 21 |
| Vidlitsa | Видлица | 127 |
| Total | 3,022 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
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| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 8,739 | 6,524 | 5,577 | 4,462 | 3,419 | 3,216 | 3,022 | 2,739 |
| Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[6] | ||||||||
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
| Orthodox Christianity | 97.9% | |||
| Catholicism | 0.3% | |||
| Protestantism | 0.2% | |||
| Islam | 0.0% | |||
| No religion | 0.4% | |||
| Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable | 1.2% | |||
Places adjacent to Georgi Damyanovo Municipality | |
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