Ivaylovgrad Municipality

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Ivaylovgrad Municipality

Община Ивайловград
Municipality
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Ivaylovgrad
Coordinates: 41°30′N26°6′E / 41.500°N 26.100°E / 41.500; 26.100 Coordinates: 41°30′N26°6′E / 41.500°N 26.100°E / 41.500; 26.100
Country Bulgaria
Province Haskovo
Municipality Ivaylovgrad
Area
  Total813.47 km2 (314.08 sq mi)
Population
(1-Feb-2011)
  Total6,426
  Density7.9/km2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Website www.ivaylovgrad.org
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Ivaylovgrad municipality within Haskovo Province

Ivaylovgrad Municipality is a municipality in Haskovo Province, Bulgaria. The administrative centre is Ivaylovgrad.

Haskovo Province Province in Bulgaria

Haskovo Province is a province in southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece and Turkey to the southeast, comprising parts of the Thracian valley along the river Maritsa. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Haskovo. The province embraces a territory of 5,533.3 km² that is divided into 11 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 256,408 inhabitants.

Bulgaria country in Southeast Europe

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country.

Ivaylovgrad Place in Haskovo, Bulgaria

Ivaylovgrad is a town in Haskovo Province in the very south-east of Bulgaria set near the river Arda in the easternmost part of the Rhodope Mountains. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Ivaylovgrad Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 3,756 inhabitants.

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

Religious composition of Ivaylovgrad Municipality [1]
Orthodox Christianity
79.9%
Catholicism
1.1%
Protestantism
0.3%
Islam
8.2%
No religion
3.8%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
6.7%

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References

  1. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.