Silistra Province
Silistra Province Област Силистра | |
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Location o in Bulgarie | |
Kintra | Bulgarie |
Caipital | Silistra |
Municipalities | 7 |
Area | |
• Total | 2,846.3 km2 (1,099.0 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 117,576 |
• Density | 41/km2 (110/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
License plate | CC |
Website | ss.government.bg |
Silistra Province (Bulgarie: Област Силистра, transliteratit Oblast Silistra, umwhile name Silistra okrug) is a province o Bulgarie, namit efter its main ceety - Silistra. It is dividit intae seiven municipalities wi a tot population, as o December 2009, o 127,659.[2][3][4]
Silistra Province is a tradeetionally agricultural province, mainly acause o its fertile sile. The province is kent for its pelicans an apricot brandy.
Besides the admeenistrative centre, ither municipalities are Alfatar, Dulovo, Glavinitsa, Kaynardzha, Sitovo, an Tutrakan.
Municipalities
The Silistra Province contains 7 municipalities ([singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini] error: {lang-xx}: text has italic markup (help)). The follaein table shows the names o each municipality in Scots an Cyrillic, the main toun (in bauld) or veelage, an the population o each as o December 2009.
Municipality | Cyrillic | Pop.[2][3][4] | Toun/Veelage | Pop.[3][5][6] |
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Alfatar | Алфатар | 3,324 | Alfatar | 1,714 |
Glavinitsa | Главиница | 12,610 | Glavinitsa | 1,928 |
Dulovo | Дулово | 28,860 | Dulovo | 6,621 |
Kaynardzha | Кайнарджа | 5,250 | Kaynardzha | 783 |
Silistra | Силистра | 54,885 | Silistra | 37,837 |
Sitovo | Ситово | 5,810 | Sitovo | 847 |
Tutrakan | Тутракан | 16,920 | Tutrakan | 9,476 |
Demografie
The Silistra province haed a population o 142,000 accordin tae a 2001 census, o which 49.7% wur male an 50.3% wur female.[7] As o the end o 2009, the population o the province, annooncit bi the Bulgarie Naitional Statistical Institute, numbered 127,659[2] o which 25.6% are indwallers aged ower 60 years.[8]
The follaein table represents the chynge o the population in the province efter Warld War II:
Silistra Province | |||||||||||
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Year | 1946 | 1956 | 1965 | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 152,287 | 163,572 | 170,442 | 175,754 | 174,122 | 161,063 | 142,000 | 134,897 | 131,798 | 127,659 | 117,576 |
Soorces: Naitional Stateestical Institute,[2] „Census 2001“,[3] „Census 2011“,[4] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,?? |
Releegion
Releegious adherence in the province accordin tae 2001 census:[9]
Census 2001 | ||
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releegious adherence | population | % |
Orthodox Christians | 83,969 | 59.13% |
Muslims | 54,174 | 38.15% |
Roman Catholics | 196 | 0.14% |
Protestants | 303 | 0.21% |
Ither | 553 | 0.39% |
Releegion nae mentioned | 2,805 | 1.98% |
tot | 142,000 | 100% |
See an aw
- Provinces o Bulgaria
- Leet o veelages in Silistra Province
References
- ↑ (in Inglis) Bulgarian Provinces area and population 1999 — National Center for Regional Development — page 90-91
- ↑ a b c d e (in Inglis) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ a b c d e (in Inglis) „WorldCityPopulation“
- ↑ a b c d „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ↑ (in Inglis) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ↑ (in Bulgarie) Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001
- ↑ (in Inglis) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009 Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ (in Bulgarie) Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001