Sitovo Municipality ( bg, Община Ситово) is a small

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

('' obshtina'') in Silistra Province, Northeastern

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, located along the right bank of

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in the Danubian Plain in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Sitovo. The municipality embraces a territory of 270.97Characterization of Silistra Province
/ref> km² with a population of 5,810 inhabitants, as of December 2009.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
The main road II-21 crosses the area centrally, from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

Settlements

Sitovo Municipality includes the following 12 places all of them villages:

Demography

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

Ethnic groups

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the plurality in Sitovo Municipality. Turks form the second largest ethnic group and Roma people form the third largest ethnic group.

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Most

Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely unders ...

are Orthodox Christians, while most

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and

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are Muslim.

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