Razlog Municipality

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Location in Blagoevgrad province
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Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast) Blagoevgrad
Area
  Total506.47 km2 (195.55 sq mi)
Population
  Total21,495
  Density42/km2 (110/sq mi)

Razlog Municipality is located in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It has 22,124 inhabitants. [1]

Contents

The town of Razlog is the administrative centre.

Places include:

Demographics

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 Razlog Municipality [2]
Orthodox Christianity
90.27%
Catholicism
0.29%
Protestantism
1.64%
Islam
0.28%
No religion
2.06%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
5.46%

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References

  1. "Population table by permanent and present address" (in Bulgarian). Head Direction of Residential Registration and Administrative Service. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  2. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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Coordinates: 41°53′N23°28′E / 41.883°N 23.467°E / 41.883; 23.467