Iskar Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Искър) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Iskar.
Iskar Municipality
Община Искър | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 43°29′N 24°18′E / 43.483°N 24.300°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province (Oblast) | Pleven |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Iskar |
Area | |
• Total | 239 km2 (92 sq mi) |
Population (December 2009)[1] | |
• Total | 7,717 |
• Density | 32/km2 (84/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The municipality embraces a territory of 239 km2 (92 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 7,717 inhabitants.[1]
(towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4] (December 2009) |
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Iskar | Искър | 3,622 |
Dolni Lukovit | Долни Луковит | 2,042 |
Pisarovo | Писарово | 879 |
Staroseltsi | Староселци | 1,174 |
Total | 7,717 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Iskar Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 13,683 | 11,503 | 10,228 | 9,107 | 8,357 | 8,052 | 7,717 | ... |
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: