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Novo Selo Municipality, Bulgaria

FieldValue
nameNovo Selo Municipality
native_nameОбщина Ново село
settlement_typeMunicipality
image_mapNovoSelo Municipality Within Bulgaria.png
map_captionNovo Selo Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1Province (Oblast)
subdivision_name1Vidin
subdivision_type2Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)
subdivision_name2Novo Selo
timezoneEET
utc_offset+2
timezone_DSTEEST
utc_offset_DST+3
coordinates
area_total_km2109.5
population_footnotes
population_as_ofApril 2011
population_total2,979
population_density_km2auto
websiteobshtina-novoselo.com

Novo Selo Municipality () is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Novo Selo. The area borders on Romania beyond the Danube to the north.

The municipality embraces a territory of 109.5 km2 with a population of 2,979 inhabitants, as of the April 2011 census.

Settlements

Novo Selo Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulationTotal2,979
Novo SeloНово село1,015
FlorentinФлорентин352
NegovanovtsiНеговановци398
VinarovoВинарово755
YasenЯсен259

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Age structure

The municipality of Novo Selo has a fastly ageing population. As of December 2018 the share of elderly people (aged 65+) reached 43.4%, up from 41.7% in 2011. The share of children aged up to 14 years old declined from 8.6% tot 8.4% in the same period.

Age structure of Novo Selo MunicipalityYearPopulation0–45–910–1415–1920–2425–2930–3435–3940–4445–4950–5455–5960–6465–6970–7475–7980+
February 20112,979
December 2016 2,691
December 20172,593
December 20182,500

Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification (in total 2970), the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:

Ethnic groupPopulationPercentage
Bulgarians2834
TurksNANA
Roma (Gypsy)70
Other19
UndeclaredNANA

Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in the municipality of Novo Selo. Nearly all Romani people are concentrated in the village of Novo Selo. There is also a significant "Vlach" (Romanian) community, but their numbers are declining rapidly.

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: An overwhelming majority of the population of Novo Selo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 94.0% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

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References

References

  1. [http://www.nsi.bg/ORPDOCS/Census2011_1.pop_by_age.xls Population by province, municipality, settlement and age by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute] {{in lang. bg
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  3. {{in lang. (February 2018)
  4. {{in lang. (February 2018)
  5. {{in lang. en[http://www.nsi.bg/Census_e/Census_e.htm National Statistical Institute - Census 2001]
  6. [http://www.nsi.bg/ORPDOCS/Census2011_4.pop_by_ethnos.xls Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute] {{in lang. bg
  7. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011".
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