Lovech Province ( bg, Област Ловеч, translit=Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) is one of the 28

provinces of Bulgaria The provinces of Bulgaria ( bg, области на България, oblasti na Bǎlgarija) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of the country. Since 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces ( bg, области, links=no ...

, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city -

Lovech Lovech ( bg, Ловеч, Lovech, ) is a city in north-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The city is located about northeast from the capital city of Sofia. Near ...

. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009

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Municipalities

The Lovech province (област, ''oblast'') contains eight municipalities (singular: община, ''obshtina'' - plural: общини, ''obshtini''). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and

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, the main town or village (in bold), and the population as of December 2009.

Population

The Lovech province had a

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of 169,951 according to a 2001

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, of which were

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and were

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.Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex
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As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 151,153 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

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Ethnic groups

Total population (2011 census): 141 422
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 130 180 persons: *

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: 118 346 (90,91%) *

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: 5 705 (4,38%) * Turks: 4 337 (3,33%) *Others and indefinable: 1 792 (1,38%) A further 11,000 persons in the Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census In the 2001 census, 167,877 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified themselves as belonging to one of the following ethnic groups (with percentage of total population):

Language

In the 2001 census, 168,307 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified one of the following as their

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(with percentage of total population): 154,157 Bulgarian (), 6,994 Turkish (), 6,033

(), and 1,123 other ().

Religion

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

Municipalities

Population

Ethnic groups

Language

Religion

References

See also