# Lovech Province

43°0′N 24°30′E﻿ / ﻿43.000°N 24.500°E﻿ / 43.000; 24.500
Lovech Province (Bulgarian: Област Ловеч, romanized: Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city: Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area was151,153.

## Municipalities

The Lovech province (област, oblast) contains eight municipalities (singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village (in bold), and the population as of December 2009.
| Municipality | Cyrillic | Pop. | Town/Village | Pop. |
| Apriltsi | Априлци | 3,554 | Apriltsi | 3,207 |
| Letnitsa | Летница | 5,101 | Letnitsa | 3,739 |
| Lovech | Ловеч | 53,578 | Lovech | 38,579 |
| Lukovit | Луковит | 19,469 | Lukovit | 9,630 |
| Teteven | Тетевен | 22,016 | Teteven | 10,613 |
| Troyan | Троян | 33,827 | Troyan | 21,997 |
| Ugarchin | Угърчин | 7,181 | Ugarchin | 2,832 |
| Yablanitsa | Ябланица | 6,427 | Yablanitsa | 2,896 |

## Demographics

The Lovech province had a population of 169,951 according to a 2001 census, of which 49.1% were male and 50.9% were female.
As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 151,153 of which 29.4% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.

### Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups in Lovech Province (2011 census) :
| Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | Bulgarians | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| Romani | Romani | 4.4% | 4.4% |
| Turks | Turks | 3.3% | 3.3% |
| others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 1.4% | 1.4% |
Total population (2011 census): 141 422 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 130 180 persons:
* Bulgarians: 118 346 (90,91%)
* Romani: 5 705 (4,38%)
* Turks: 4 337 (3,33%)
* Others and indefinable: 1 792 (1,38%)
A further 11,000 persons in the Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census
In the 2001 census, 167,877 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified themselves as belonging to one of the following ethnic groups (with percentage of total population):
| Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | 152,194 | 89.552% |
| Turkish | 8,476 | 4.987% |
| Romani | 6,316 | 3.716% |
| Russians | 269 | 0.158% |
| Armenians | 12 | 0.007% |
| Vlachs (Aromanians, Romanians, Romanian-speaking Boyash) | 458 | 0.269% |
| Macedonians | 7 | 0.004% |
| Greeks | 21 | 0.012% |
| Ukrainians | 29 | 0.017% |
| Jewish | 1 | 0.001% |
| Romanians (self-declared) | 3 | 0.002% |
| Other | 91 | 0.054% |

### Language

In the 2001 census, 168,307 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified one of the following as their mother tongue (with percentage of total population): 154,157 Bulgarian (90.7%), 6,994 Turkish (4.1%), 6,033 Romani (3.5%), and 1,123 other (0.7%).

### Religion

Religions in Lovech Province (2011 census) :
| Religious group | Religious group | Percentage | Percentage |
| Orthodox Christian | Orthodox Christian | 59.75% | 59.75% |
| Muslim | Muslim | 2.3% | 2.3% |
| Protestant Christian | Protestant Christian | 0.9% | 0.9% |
| Roman Catholic Christian | Roman Catholic Christian | 0.5% | 0.5% |
| others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 36.46% | 36.46% |
Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:
Census 2001 :
| religious adherence | population | % |
| Orthodox Christians | 146,778 | 86.36% |
| Muslims | 10,501 | 6.18% |
| Protestants | 879 | 0.52% |
| Roman Catholics | 366 | 0.22% |
| Other | 688 | 0.40% |
| Religion not mentioned | 10,739 | 6.32% |
| total | 169,951 | 100% |