Pavlikeni Municipality Община Павликени | |
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Municipality | |
 Pavlikeni Municipality within Bulgaria and Veliko Tarnovo Province. | |
| Coordinates:43°16′N25°19′E / 43.267°N 25.317°E /43.267; 25.317 | |
| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Province(Oblast) | Veliko Tarnovo |
| Admin. centre(Obshtinski tsentar) | Pavlikeni |
| Area | |
• Total | 622 km2 (240 sq mi) |
| Population (December 2009)[1] | |
• Total | 26,342 |
| • Density | 42.4/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Pavlikeni Municipality (Bulgarian:Община Павликени) is amunicipality (obshtina) inVeliko Tarnovo Province, Central-NorthBulgaria, located mostly in theDanubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town ofPavlikeni.
The municipality embraces a territory of 622.56 km2 (240.37 sq mi) with a population of 26,342 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
TheHemus motorway is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city ofSofia with the port ofVarna on theBulgarian Black Sea Coast.
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Pavlikeni Municipality includes the following 20 places (towns are shown in bold):
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4] (December 2009) |
|---|---|---|
| Pavlikeni | Павликени | 11,151 |
| Batak | Батак | 951 |
| Butovo | Бутово | 922 |
| Byala Cherkva | Бяла Черква | 2,612 |
| Dolna Lipnitsa | Долна Липница | 806 |
| Dimcha | Димча | 411 |
| Daskot | Дъскот | 488 |
| Gorna Lipnitsa | Горна Липница | 646 |
| Karaisen | Караисен | 1,210 |
| Lesicheri | Лесичери | 571 |
| Mihaltsi | Михалци | 952 |
| Musina | Мусина | 242 |
| Nedan | Недан | 1,384 |
| Patresh | Патреш | 572 |
| Paskalevets | Паскалевец | 315 |
| Rositsa | Росица | 169 |
| Slomer | Сломер | 454 |
| Stambolovo | Стамболово | 831 |
| Vishovgrad | Вишовград | 367 |
| Varbovka | Върбовка | 1,288 |
| Total | 26,342 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
| Pavlikeni Municipality | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 40,805 | 36,709 | 35,238 | 31,312 | 28,845 | 27,592 | 26,342 | ... |
| Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7] | ||||||||
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 | 78.5% | |||
| Catholicism | 0.5% | |||
| Protestantism | 0.5% | |||
| Islam | 5.7% | |||
| No religion | 7.7% | |||
| Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable | 7.1% | |||
