Dolni Chiflik Municipality


Dolni Chiflik Municipality is a municipality in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Chiflik.
The municipality spreads from Dalgopol Municipality in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the east. To the north the area is mostly defined by the Kamchiya river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 487 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 19,316 inhabitants.

Settlements

Dolni Chiflik Municipality includes the following 17 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
Dolni ChiflikДолни чифлик6,706
BulairБулаир158
BardarevoБърдарево87
DetelinaДетелина664
GolitsaГолица596
Goren ChiflikГорен чифлик1,450
GrozdyovoГроздьово2,389
KriviniКривини110
Nova ShipkaНова Шипка291
Novo OryahovoНово Оряхово206
PchelnikПчелник1,614
RudnikРудник494
SolnikСолник249
Staro OryahovoСтаро Оряхово2,713
ShkorpilovtsiШкорпиловци704
VenelinВенелин818
YunetsЮнец67
Total19,316

Demography

The population of Dolni Chiflik Municipality is 20,217, of which 12,857 Bulgarians, 5,390 Turks and 717 Roma.
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

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:
A majority of the population of Dolni Chiflik Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 66.8% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Muslims constitute the second largest religious group with 15.1% of the population.