Silistra Province
Silistra Province Област Силистра | |
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Location o in Bulgarie | |
Kintra | Bulgarie |
Caipital | Silistra |
Municipalities | 7 |
Area | |
• Total | 2,846.3 km2 (1,099.0 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 117,576 |
• Density | 41/km2 (110/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
License plate | CC |
Website | ss.government.bg |
Silistra Province (Bulgarie: Област Силистра, transliteratit Oblast Silistra, umwhile name Silistra okrug) is a province o Bulgarie, namit efter its main ceety - Silistra. It is dividit intae seiven municipalities wi a tot population, as o December 2009, o 127,659.[2][3][4]
Silistra Province is a tradeetionally agricultural province, mainly acause o its fertile sile. The province is kent for its pelicans an apricot brandy.
Besides the admeenistrative centre, ither municipalities are Alfatar, Dulovo, Glavinitsa, Kaynardzha, Sitovo, an Tutrakan.
Municipalities
[eedit | eedit soorce]The Silistra Province contains 7 municipalities ([singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)). The follaein table shows the names o each municipality in Scots an Cyrillic, the main toun (in bauld) or veelage, an the population o each as o December 2009.
Municipality | Cyrillic | Pop.[2][3][4] | Toun/Veelage | Pop.[3][5][6] |
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Alfatar | Алфатар | 3,324 | Alfatar | 1,714 |
Glavinitsa | Главиница | 12,610 | Glavinitsa | 1,928 |
Dulovo | Дулово | 28,860 | Dulovo | 6,621 |
Kaynardzha | Кайнарджа | 5,250 | Kaynardzha | 783 |
Silistra | Силистра | 54,885 | Silistra | 37,837 |
Sitovo | Ситово | 5,810 | Sitovo | 847 |
Tutrakan | Тутракан | 16,920 | Tutrakan | 9,476 |
Demografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]The Silistra province haed a population o 142,000 accordin tae a 2001 census, o which 49.7% wur male an 50.3% wur female.[7] As o the end o 2009, the population o the province, annooncit bi the Bulgarie Naitional Statistical Institute, numbered 127,659[2] o which 25.6% are indwallers aged ower 60 years.[8]
The follaein table represents the chynge o the population in the province efter Warld War II:
Silistra Province | |||||||||||
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Year | 1946 | 1956 | 1965 | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 152,287 | 163,572 | 170,442 | 175,754 | 174,122 | 161,063 | 142,000 | 134,897 | 131,798 | 127,659 | 117,576 |
Soorces: Naitional Stateestical Institute,[2] „Census 2001“,[3] „Census 2011“,[4] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,?? |
Releegion
[eedit | eedit soorce]Releegious adherence in the province accordin tae 2001 census:[9]
Census 2001 | ||
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releegious adherence | population | % |
Orthodox Christians | 83,969 | 59.13% |
Muslims | 54,174 | 38.15% |
Roman Catholics | 196 | 0.14% |
Protestants | 303 | 0.21% |
Ither | 553 | 0.39% |
Releegion nae mentioned | 2,805 | 1.98% |
tot | 142,000 | 100% |
See an aw
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ (in Inglis) Bulgarian Provinces area and population 1999 — National Center for Regional Development — page 90-91
- ↑ a b c d e (in Inglis) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ a b c d e (in Inglis) „WorldCityPopulation“
- ↑ a b c d „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ↑ (in Inglis) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ↑ (in Bulgarie) Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001
- ↑ (in Inglis) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009 Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ (in Bulgarie) Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001