Vidin Province

Vidin Province () is the northwastmaist province o Bulgarie. It borders Serbie tae the wast an Romanie tae the northeast. Its admeenistrative centre is the ceety o Vidin on the Danube river. The aurie is dividit intae 11 municipalities. As o December 2009, the province haes a population o 108,067 inhabitants. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009  „WorldCityPopulation“„pop-stat.mashke.org“

There are remains o mony castles, some o which are Baba Vida, ane o the last Bulgarie stranghaulds durin the Ottoman invasion an the Belogradchik fortress.

Municipalities

The Vidin Province contains 11 municipalities (singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini). The follaeing table shows the names o each municipality in Inglis an Cyrillic, the main toun (in bauld) or veelage, an the population o each as o December 2009.

 Municipality Cyrillic Pop. Toun/Veelage Pop. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 „pop-stat.mashke.org“ Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009BelogradchikБелоградчик 7,045Belogradchik 5,334BoynitsaБойница 1,717Boynitsa 595BregovoБрегово 6,168Bregovo 2,592VidinВидин 66,126Vidin 49,471GramadaГрамада 2,384Gramada 1,647DimovoДимово 7,175Dimovo 1,211KulaКула 4,958Kula 3,287MakreshМакреш 1,938Makresh 473Novo SeloНово Село 3,381Novo Selo 1,144RuzhintsiРужинци 4,890Ruzhintsi 915ChupreneЧупрене 2,285Chuprene 576

Geografie

The territory o the province includes the maist wastren pairts o the Danubian Plain an Stara Planina, while the Danube forms the border wi Romanie. The slopes o Stara Planina are covered wi dense forests, lush meadaes an boasts the majestic rock phenomena, the Belogradchik Rocks. There are aroond 80 caves situatit close tae the border wi Serbie, the maist famous being the Magura Cave, which kent with its cave paintin frae 10,000 BC. There is a lake in the proximity o the cave an aw.

Demografie

The Vidin province haed a population o 130,074 accordin tae a 2001 census, o which  wur male an  wur female. Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001
As o the end o 2009, the population o the province, annooncit bi the Bulgarie Naitional Statistical Institute, numbered 108,067 of which  are inhabitants aged over 60 years. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009 

The follaein table represents the chynge o the population in the province efter Warld War II:

Releegion

Releegious adherence in the province accordin tae 2001 census: Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001
 Census 2001 relieegious adherence population % Orthodox Christians 125,06396.15% Muslims 1390.11% Roman Catholics 1430.11% Protestants 3970.31% Ither 6020.46% Releegion no mentioned 3,7302.87% total 130,074100%

 Touns an veelages 
The place names in bauld hae the status o toun (in Bulgarie: град, transliteratit as grad). Ither localities hae the status o veelage (in Bulgarie: село, transliteratit as selo). The names o localities are transliteratit in Laitin alphabetGeonames Search  at National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - reference for location names follaeed in parentheses bi the oreeginal name in Bulgarie Cyrillic alphabet (which links tae the correspondin Bulgarie Wikipedia airticle).

 Belogradchik Municipality 

The Belogradchik municipality haes ane toun (in bauld) an 17 veelages:

 Boynitsa Municipality 

The Boynitsa municipality haes 9 veelages:

 Bregovo Municipality 

The Bregovo municipality haes ane toun (in bauld) an 9 veelages:

 Vidin Municipality 

The Vidin municipality haes twa touns (in bauld) an 33 veelages:

 Gramada Municipality 

The Gramada municipality haes ane toun (in bauld) an 7 veelages:

 Dimovo Municipality 

The Dimovo municipality haes ane toun (in bauld) an 22 veelages:

 Kula Municipality 

The Kula municipality haes ane toun (in bauld) an 8 veelages:

 Makresh Municipality 

The Makresh municipality haes 7 veelages:

 Novo Selo 

The Novo Selo municipality haes 5 veelages:

 Ruzhintsi Municipality 

The Ruzhintsi municipality haes 10 veelages:

 Chuprene Municipality 

The Chuprene municipality haes 9 veelages:

References

 Freemit airtins 
 Offeecial steid 

Category:Provinces o Bulgarie