Shumen Municipality
Shumen Municipality () is a municipality ("obshtina") in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Shumen which is also the capital of the province. The municipality embraces a territory of 630 km² with a population of 101,597 inhabitants, as of December 2009. Currently, the eastern operating section of Hemus motorway connects the main town with the port of Varna. Aside from the rich cultural landmarks of the main city, the area is most known with the National Historical and Archaeological Reserve that includes the famous Madara Rider near the homonymous village. Settlements . Shumen Municipality includes the following 27 places (towns are shown in bold): Demography. The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Shumen Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Ivanski and the numbers in the table reflect this unification. 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: Shumen Municipality