Vidin Municipality


Vidin Municipality is a municipality in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Vidin which is also the capital of the province.
The municipality embraces a territory of 501 km² with a population of 66,126 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road E79 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin with the city of Montana and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Vidin Municipality includes the following 34 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
VidinВидин49,471
AkatsievoАкациево112
AntimovoАнтимово616
Bela RadaБела Рада608
BotevoБотево82
BukovetsБуковец772
DinkovitsaДинковица152
Dolni BoshnyakДолни Бошняк77
DruzhbaДружба220
DunavtsiДунавци2,743
GaytantsiГайтанци118
General MarinovoГенерал Мариново185
GomotartsiГомотарци798
GradetsГрадец1,476
IvanovtsiИвановци113
InovoИново735
KalenikКаленик279
KapitanovtsiКапитановци1,186
KoshavaКошава415
KutovoКутово837
Mayor UzunovoМайор Узуново334
NovoseltsiНовоселци879
PeshakovoПешаково
PlakuderПлакудер94
PokraynaПокрайна1,301
RuptsiРупци165
SinagovtsiСинаговци430
Slana BaraСлана бара537
SlanotranСланотрън595
TarnyaneТърняне166
Tsar SimeonovoЦар Симеоново115
VoynitsaВойница123
VartopВъртоп97
ZheglitsaЖеглица194
Total66,126

Demography

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

Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
Ethnic groupPopulationPercentage
Bulgarians54546
Turks66
Roma 3753
Other322
Undeclared345

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:
An overwhelming majority of the population of Vidin Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 84.3% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.