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.

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.

## 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.
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.

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:

## 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 alphabet 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, Bulgarie|Kula Municipality]]

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


### [[Makresh Municipality]]

The Makresh municipality haes 7 veelages:


### [[Novo Selo Municipality, Bulgarie|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


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