Dobrich Province

Dobrich Province ( bg, Област Добрич, , former name Dobrich okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is bounded on east by the Black Sea, on south by Varna Province, on west by Shumen and Silistra provinces, on the north by Romania. It is divided into 8 municipalities. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 186,016.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009

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The province was part of Romania between 1913 and 1940.

Municipalities

The Dobrich province (област, ''oblast'') contains eight municipalities (singular: bg, община, translit=obshtina - plural: , ). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each in December 2009.

Population

The Dobrich province had a population of 215,232 (215,217 also given) according to a 2001 census, of which were male and were female.Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex
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At the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 199,705 of which are inhabitants aged over 60 years.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009

The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:

Ethnic groups

Total population (2011 census): 189 677

Ethnic groups (2011 census):
Identified themselves: 173 899 persons:
*Bulgarians: 131 114 (75.40%)
* Turks: 23 484 (13.50%)
*Romani: 15 323 (8.81%)
*Others and indefinable: 3 978 (2.29%)

A further 15,000 persons in Dobrich Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001

Towns and villages

The place names in bold have the status of town (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as ''grad''). Other localities have the status of village (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as ''selo'').

Balchik municipality

Albena , Balchik , Bezvoditsa , Bobovets , Bryastovo , Dabrava , Dropla , Gurkovo , Hrabrovo , Karvuna , Kranevo , Kremena , Lyahovo , Obrochishte , Prespa , Rogachevo , Senokos , Sokolovo , Strajitsa , Trigortsi , Tsarichino , Tsarkva , Tuzlata , Zmeevo

Dobrich municipality (city)

Dobrich

Dobrichka municipality (rural)

Altsek , Batovo , Bdintsi , Benkovski , Bogdan , Bojurovo , Branishte , Cherna , Debrene , Dobrevo , Dolina , Donchevo , Draganovo , Dryanovets , Enevo , Feldfebel Denkovo , General Kolevo , Geshanovo , Hitovo , Jitnitsa , Kamen , Kamen Bryag , Karapelit , Kotlentsi , Kozloduytsi , Kragulevo , Lomnitsa , Lovchantsi , Lyaskovo , Malka Smolnitsa , Medovo , Metodievo , Miladinovtsi , Novo Botevo , Odrintsi , Odurtsi , Opanets , Orlova mogila , Ovcharovo , Paskalevo , Pchelino , Pchelnik , Plachi Dol , Pobeda , Podslon , Polkovnik Ivanovo , Polkovnik Minkovo , Polkovnik Sveshtarovo , Popgrigorovo , Prilep , Primortsi , Rosenovo , Samuilovo , Slaveevo , Sliventsi , Smolnitsa , Sokolnik , Stefan Karadja , Stefanovo , Stojer , Svoboda , Tsarevets , Tyanevo , Vedrina , Vladimirovo , Vodnyantsi , Vrachantsi , Vratarite , Zlatia

General Toshevo municipality

Aleksandar Stamboliyski , Balkantsi , Bejanovo , Chernookovo , Dabovik , General Toshevo , Goritsa , Gradini , Izvorovo , Jiten , Kalina , Kapinovo , Kardam , Konare , Kraishte , Krasen , Loznitsa , Lyulyakovo , Malina , Ograjden , Pchelarovo , Petleshkovo , Pisarovo , Plenimir , Preselentsi , Prisad , Ravnets , Rogozina , Rosen , Rositsa , Sarnino , Sirakovo , Snop , Snyagovo , Spasovo , Sredina , Uzovo , Vasilevo , Velikovo , Vichovo , Yovkovo

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