Simitli Municipality

Simitli Municipality is a municipality in Blagoevgrad Province in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Simitli Municipality Община Симитли
Municipality
Location in Blagoevgrad province Location on map of Bulgaria
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Blagoevgrad
Area
• Total	553.004 km2 (213.516 sq mi)
Population
• Total	14,904
• Density	26.951/km2 (69.803/sq mi)

Demographics

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 Simitli Municipality ^[1]

Orthodox Christianity			89.25%
Catholicism			0.31%
Protestantism			0.43%
Islam			7.34%
No religion			0.76%
Prefer not to answer, others and aindefinable			1.91%