Boynitsa Municipality


Boynitsa Municipality is a small frontier municipality in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 20 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Boynitsa. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west and northwest.
The municipality embraces a territory of 166 km² with a population of 1,717 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements

Boynitsa Municipality includes the following 8 places all of them villages:
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
BoynitsaБойница595
BorilovetsБориловец299
Gradskovski KolibiГрадсковски колиби67
KanitsКаниц15
PerilovetsПериловец91
RabrovoРаброво468
Shipikova MahalaШипикова махала8
ShishentsiШишенци174
Total1,717

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Vital statistics

As of most recent statistics from 2018, the population of Boynitsa dropped further to 936 people. There were only 2 births recorded and 55 deaths. That means that the population dropped by 53 people, because of natural increase. In the period between 2000-2018 there were a total of 104 births recorded. The number of deaths in the same period was 1,488. That means that the population of Boynitsa declined by 1,384 people just because the fact more people are dying than that being born. Boynitsa is one of the smallest municipalities by population.

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: