Ruse Province

Ruse Province (Bulgarie: Област Русе or Rusenska Oblast Bulgarie: Русенска област, umwhile name Ruse okrug) is a province in northren Bulgarie, namit efter its main ceety - Ruse, neebourin Romanie via the Danube. It is dividit intae 8 municipalities wi a tot population, as o December 2009, o 249,144 indwallers.^[2][3][4]

Ruse Province Област Русе
Province
Location o Ruse Province in Bulgarie
Kintra	Bulgarie
Caipital	Ruse
Municipalities	8
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Stefko Burdzhiev
Area [1]
• Total	2,803.4 km2 (1,082.4 sq mi)
Population  (Februar 2011)[2]
• Total	235,252
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
License plate	P
Website	ruse.bg

The Danube Brig, the anerlie brig ower the Danube in Bulgarie, is locatit in the province. Ane o the versions o a fowk sang, inspired bi the Ruse blood weddin, can be heard in the province.

Municipalities

Template:Ruse Province Labelled Map The Ruse province (област, oblast) contains aicht municipalities ([singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)). The follaein table shows the names o each municipality in Scots an Cyrillic, the main toun (in bauld) or veelage, an the population o each as o December 2009.

Municipality	Cyrillic	Pop.[2][3][4]	Toun/Veelage	Pop.[3][5][6]
Borovo	Борово	6,699	Borovo	2,330
Byala	Бяла	14,962	Byala	9,015
Vetovo	Ветово	13,738	Vetovo	4,777
Dve Mogili	Две могили	10,341	Dve Mogili	4,342
Ivanovo	Иваново	10,339	Ivanovo	880
Ruse	Русе	175,210	Ruse	156,509
Slivo Pole	Сливо поле	11,635	Slivo Pole	3,169
Tsenovo	Ценово	6,220	Tsenovo	1,673

Demografie

The Ruse province haed a population o 266,213 (266,157 gien an aw) accordin tae a 2001 census, o which 7001487000000000000♠48.7% wur male an 7001513000000000000♠51.3% wur female.^[7] As o the end o 2009, the population o the province, annooncit bi the Bulgarie Naitional Statistical Institute, numbered 249,144^[2] o which 7001258000000000000♠25.8% are indwallers agit ower 60 years.^[8]

The follaein table represents the chynge o the population in the province efter Warld War II:

Ruse Province
Year	1946	1956	1965	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	215,361	236,117	273,226	305,722	315,762	290,800	266,213	256,835	253,008	249,144	235,252
Soorces: Naitional Stateestical Institute,[2] „Census 2001“,[3] „Census 2011“,[4] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,??

Releegion

Releegious adherence in the province accordin tae 2001 census:^[9]

Census 2001
releegious adherence	population	%
Orthodox Christians	215,434	80.94%
Muslims	41,997	15.78%
Roman Catholics	567	0.21%
Protestants	482	0.18%
Ither	1,596	0.60%
Releegion no mentioned	6,081	2.29%
tot	266,157	100%

See an aw

• Provinces o Bulgarie
• Leet o veelages in Rousse Province