Shabla Municipality


Shabla Municipality is a municipality in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria, located in the north-easternmost part of the country on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region, bounded by Romania to the north. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Shabla.
The municipality embraces a territory of 329.64 km² with a population of 5,580 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The area is best known with Cape Shabla - Bulgaria's easternmost point as well as the natural reserve of Durankulak Lake.
The main road E87 crosses the municipality connecting the port of Varna with the Romanian port of Konstanza.

Settlements

Shabla Municipality includes the following 16 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
ShablaШабла3,586
BozhanovoБожаново15
ChernomortsiЧерноморци80
DurankulakДуранкулак455
EzeretsЕзерец183
GorichaneГоричане95
GorunГорун105
GranicharГраничар163
KrapetsКрапец378
ProlezПролез56
SminСмин78
StaevtsiСтаевци8
TvarditsaТвърдица11
TyulenovoТюленово59
VaklinoВаклино195
Zahari StoyanovoЗахари Стояново113
Total5,580

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: