Iskar Municipality

Iskar Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Искър) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Iskar.

Iskar Municipality Община Искър
Municipality
Iskar Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Coordinates: 43°29′N 24°18′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Pleven
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Iskar
Area
• Total	239 km2 (92 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	7,717
• Density	32/km2 (84/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 239 km² (92 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 7,717 inhabitants.^[1]

Settlements

Iskar Municipality within Pleven Province

Pleven

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Cherven Bryag

•

Levski

•

Nikopol

•

Knezha

•

Belene

•

Dolna Mitropoliya

•

Pordim

•

Gulyantsi

•

Dolni Dabnik

•

Iskar

(towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Iskar	Искър	3,622
Dolni Lukovit	Долни Луковит	2,042
Pisarovo	Писарово	879
Staroseltsi	Староселци	1,174
Total		7,717

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Iskar Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	13,683	11,503	10,228	9,107	8,357	8,052	7,717	...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

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:

Religious composition of Iskar Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   71.2% Catholicism   0.8% Protestantism   0.0% Islam   0.4% No religion   19.5% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   8.1%

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria