# Dulovo Municipality

Dulovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Дулово) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain, in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region, about 25 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Dulovo.
The municipality embraces a territory of 566.33 km$^2$ with a population of 28,860 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road I-7 crosses the area from north to south, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Shumen and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

## Settlements

Dulovo Municipality includes the following 27 places (towns are shown in bold):
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| Dulovo | Дулово | 6,621 |
| Boil | Боил | 954 |
| Cherkovna | Черковна | 599 |
| Chernolik | Чернолик | 1,425 |
| Chernik | Черник | 2,299 |
| Dolets | Долец | 533 |
| Grancharovo | Грънчарово | 505 |
| Kozyak | Козяк | 362 |
| Kolobar | Колобър | 532 |
| Mezhden | Межден | 691 |
| Oven | Овен | 1,011 |
| Okorsh | Окорш | 1,617 |
| Oreshene | Орешене | 399 |
| Paisievo | Паисиево | 870 |
| Polkovnik Taslakovo | Полковник Таслаково | 435 |
| Poroyno | Поройно | 1,248 |
| Pravda | Правда | 1,664 |
| Prohlada | Прохлада | 250 |
| Razdel | Раздел | 624 |
| Ruyno | Руйно | 857 |
| Sekulovo | Секулово | 920 |
| Skala | Скала | 212 |
| Vodno | Водно | 921 |
| Vokil | Вокил | 1,227 |
| Varbino | Върбино | 100 |
| Yarebitsa | Яребица | 1,357 |
| Zlatoklas | Златоклас | 627 |
| Total | | 28,860 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Dulovo Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Okorsh and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
Dulovo Municipality :
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 23,253 | 23,426 | 33,509 | 30,591 | 29,677 | 29,200 | 28,860 | ... |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnic groups

Ethnic Turks constitute the majority of the population of Dulovo, followed by Bulgarians and Roma people.
Ethnic groups in the municipality of Dulovo (2011 census) :
| Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | Bulgarians | 17.8% | 17.8% |
| Turks | Turks | 70.4% | 70.4% |
| Roma | Roma | 9.2% | 9.2% |
| others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 2.6% | 2.6% |

### Religious composition

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 Dulovo Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
18.7%
Catholicism
0.1%
Protestantism
0.1%
Islam
75.9%
No religion
0.9%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
4.3% :
Most inhabitants are Muslim, followed by Christians.

### Demographic indicators

The municipality of Dulovo has a relatively good demographic structure compared to other areas in Bulgaria, although the situation is becoming worse.
| | Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural growth | Birth rate (‰) | Death rate (‰) | Natural growth rate (‰) |
| 2000 | 32,880 | 337 | 431 | −94 | 10.2 | 13.1 | −2.9 |
| 2001 | 30,443 | 346 | 430 | −84 | 11.4 | 14.1 | −2.8 |
| 2002 | 30,150 | 297 | 420 | −123 | 9.9 | 13.9 | −4.1 |
| 2003 | 30,079 | 349 | 379 | −30 | 11.6 | 12.6 | −1.0 |
| 2004 | 29,893 | 326 | 392 | −66 | 10.9 | 13.1 | −2.2 |
| 2005 | 29,677 | 298 | 407 | −109 | 10.0 | 13.7 | −3.7 |
| 2006 | 29,473 | 304 | 435 | −131 | 10.3 | 14.8 | −4.4 |
| 2007 | 29,200 | 304 | 405 | −101 | 10.4 | 13.9 | −3.5 |
| 2008 | 28,956 | 344 | 407 | −63 | 11.9 | 14.1 | −2.2 |
| 2009 | 28,860 | 366 | 372 | −6 | 12.7 | 12.9 | −0.2 |
| 2010 | 28,634 | 333 | 382 | −49 | 11.6 | 13.3 | −1.7 |
| 2011 | 28,259 | 282 | 376 | −94 | 10.0 | 13.2 | −3.3 |
| 2012 | 28,215 | 329 | 399 | −70 | 11.7 | 14.1 | −2.5 |
| 2013 | 28,077 | 267 | 329 | −62 | 9.5 | 11.7 | −2.2 |
| 2014 | 27,963 | 302 | 409 | −107 | 10.8 | 14.6 | −3.8 |
| 2015 | 27,857 | 305 | 395 | −90 | 10.9 | 14.2 | −3.2 |
| 2016 | 27,643 | 282 | 398 | −116 | 10.2 | 14.4 | −4.2 |
| 2017 | 27,506 | 281 | 365 | −84 | 10.2 | 13.3 | −3.1 |
| 2018 | 27,403 | 248 | 410 | -162 | 9.1 | 15.0 | -5.9 |