Ruzhintsi Municipality Община Ружинци | |
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Municipality | |
 Ruzhintsi Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province. | |
| Coordinates:43°36′N22°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 |
| • Density | 21.1/km2 (54.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Ruzhintsi Municipality (Bulgarian:Община Ружинци) is amunicipality (obshtina) inVidin Province, NorthwesternBulgaria, located in theDanubian Plain about 8 km south ofDanube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the village ofRuzhintsi.
The municipality embraces a territory of 232 km2 (90 sq mi) with a population of 4,890 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
The mainroad E79 crosses the southern parts of the area, connecting the province centre ofVidin with the city ofMontana and respectively with the western operating part of theHemus motorway.
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Ruzhintsi Municipality includes the following 10 places all of them villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4] (December 2009) |
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| 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 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
| Ruzhintsi Municipality | ||||||||
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| 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] | ||||||||
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 | 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 asChristians. At the 2011 census, 82.8% of respondents identified asOrthodox Christians belonging to theBulgarian Orthodox Church.
Places adjacent to Ruzhintsi Municipality | |
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