Dimovo Municipality is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 (obshtina) in Vidin Province

Vidin Province

Vidin Province is the northwesternmost province of Bulgaria. It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast. Its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river. The area is divided into 11 municipalities...

, Northwestern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

The Danubian Plain constitutes the northern part of Bulgaria, situated north of the Balkan Mountains and south of the Danube. Its western border is the Timok River and to the east it borders the Black Sea. The plain has an area of . It is about long and wide.The relief of the Danubian Plain is...

. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dimovo

Dimovo

Dimovo is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dimovo Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of Vidin Province, 30 kilometres from Vidin at the Danube and 50 kilometres from Bregovo at the Timok River and the Serbian border...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 402.87 km² with a population of 7,175 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road E79

European route E70

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 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin

Vidin

Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Serbia and Romania, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin...

 with the city of Montana

Montana

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 and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway

Hemus motorway

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Settlements

Dimovo Municipality includes the following 23 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Dimovo Dimovo Dimovo is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dimovo Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of Vidin Province, 30 kilometres from Vidin at the Danube and 50 kilometres from Bregovo at the Timok River and the Serbian border...	Димово	1,211
Archar	Арчар	2,603
Bela	Бела	120
Dalgo Pole	Дълго поле	27
Darzhanitsa	Държаница	107
Gara Oreshets	Гара Орешец	819
Izvor	Извор	311
Karbintsi	Карбинци	241
Kladorub Kladorub Kladorub is a village in northwestern Bulgaria.It is located in Vidin region , Dimovo Municipality.- History :Kladorub lies upon the remains of an ancient village...	Кладоруб	44
Kostichovtsi	Костичовци	114
Lagoshevtsi	Лагошевци	89
Mali Drenovets	Мали Дреновец	83
Medovnitsa	Медовница	327
Oreshets	Орешец	15
Ostrokaptsi	Острокапци	98
Septemvriytsi	Септемврийци	251
Skomlya	Скомля	43
Shipot	Шипот	76
Vladichentsi	Владиченци	80
Vodnyantsi	Воднянци	279
Varbovchets	Върбовчец	94
Yanyovets	Яньовец	33
Yarlovitsa	Ярловица	110
Total		7,175

Demography

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

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
  Provinces of Bulgaria
  Since 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces which correspond approximately to the 28 districts that existed before 1987. In 1987, during the Communist regime of Todor Zhivkov, the districts were consolidated into nine larger provinces , which survived until 1999.Each province is named...
  
  
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
  Municipalities of Bulgaria
  The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 264 municipalities .-Blagoevgrad Province:# Bansko Municipality # Belitsa Municipality # Blagoevgrad Municipality...
  
  
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

External links

• Official website