Pavlikeni Municipality


Pavlikeni Municipality is a municipality in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Pavlikeni.
The municipality embraces a territory of 622,56 km² with a population of 26,342 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements

Pavlikeni Municipality includes the following 20 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
PavlikeniПавликени11,151
BatakБатак951
ButovoБутово922
Byala CherkvaБяла Черква2,612
Dolna LipnitsaДолна Липница806
DimchaДимча411
DaskotДъскот488
Gorna LipnitsaГорна Липница646
KaraisenКараисен1,210
LesicheriЛесичери571
MihaltsiМихалци952
MusinaМусина242
NedanНедан1,384
PatreshПатреш572
PaskalevetsПаскалевец315
RositsaРосица169
SlomerСломер454
StambolovoСтамболово831
VishovgradВишовград367
VarbovkaВърбовка1,288
Total26,342

Demography

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: