Varna Municipality
Varna Municipality () is a seaside municipality ("obshtina") in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and near Varna lake. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Varna - which is also the capital of the homonymous province. The municipality embraces a territory of 237.5 km² with a population, as of March 2016, of 373,601 inhabitants, the nation's second largest municipality after the Sofia Capital Municipality. Settlements. Varna Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold): Demography. The following table shows the change of the population during the last  four decades. Ethnic composition. According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following: 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: