Ruse Municipality


Ruse Municipality is a municipality in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Ruse which is also a capital of the province.
The municipality embraces a territory of 469.17 km² with a population of 175,210 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
Apart from the cultural heritage of the main city, the area is best known with the Danube Bridge, the first bridge over the Danube in Bulgaria.
The main roads E85, E70 and II-21 crosses the municipality, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the cities of Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven, Razgrad and Silistra.

Settlements

Ruse Municipality includes the following 14 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
RuseРусе156,509
BasarabovoБасарбово1,349
BazanБъзън1,221
Chervena VodaЧервена вода1,529
Dolno AblanovoДолно Абланово214
HotantsaХотанца823
MartenМартен3,691
NikolovoНиколово3,004
Novo SeloНово село1,176
ProsenaПросена634
SandrovoСандрово1,308
SemerdzhievoСемерджиево1,132
TetovoТетово2,303
YastrebovoЯстребово317
Total175,210

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Ruse Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Novo Selo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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: