Popovo 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 Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

, Northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located in the eastern part of the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

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

The municipality embraces a territory of 833 km² with a population of 31,479 inhabitants, as of December 2009. The Hemus motorway

Hemus motorway

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 is planned to cross the southern part of the area.

Settlements

Popovo Municipality includes the following 34 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Popovo	Попово	15,548
Aprilovo	Априлово	614
Baba Tonka	Баба Тонка	111
Berkovski	Берковски	108
Braknitsa	Бракница	79
Dolets	Долец	90
Dolna Kabda	Долна Кабда	243
Drinovo	Дриново	541
Elenovo	Еленово	481
Gagovo	Гагово	812
Gloginka	Глогинка	553
Goritsa	Горица	164
Ivancha	Иванча	29
Konak	Конак	93
Kozitsa	Козица	337
Kardam	Кардам	1,491
Kovachevets	Ковачевец	691
Lomtsi	Ломци	1,052
Marchino	Марчино	124
Medovina	Медовина	878
Manastiritsa	Манастирица	39
Osikovo	Осиково	205
Palamartsa	Паламарца	634
Posabina	Посабина	250
Pomoshtitsa	Помощица	120
Sadina	Садина	1,117
Slavyanovo Slavyanovo, Targovishte Province Slavyanovo is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in Popovo Municipality of the Targovishte Province.-Geography:Slavyanovo is situated in a flat region with a small inclination from the west to the east. There are four little rivers that flow through the village, three of them have their...	Славяново	861
Svetlen	Светлен	1,208
Trastika	Тръстика	311
Voditsa	Водица	796
Zavetno	Заветно	114
Zaraevo	Зараево	981
Zvezda	Звезда	204
Zahari Stoyanovo	Захари Стояново	374
Total		31,479

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Popovo Municipality has comprised the former municipalities of Sadina and Voditsa and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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