Novgrad (, ; also transliterated ''Novgrad'') is a village in the northeastern part of

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

, close to the

Bulgaria–Romania border The Bulgaria–Romania border (, ) is the state border between Bulgaria and Romania. For most of its length, the border follows the course of the lower Danube, up until the town of Silistra. From Silistra, the river continues north into the Roman ...

. It is situated in the

Ruse Province Ruse Province (), or Rusenska Oblast (, former name Ruse okrug) is a province in northern Bulgaria, named after its main city, Ruse, neighbouring Romania via the Danube. It is divided into eight municipalities with a total population, as of F ...

, and is a part of the

Tsenovo Municipality Tsenovo Municipality () is a small Municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality (''obshtina'') in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain (Bulgaria), Danubian Plain where Yantra (river) ...

, which lies in the western part the province. Novgrad is located along the lower course of the

Yantra River The Yantra ( ) is a river in northern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube. Reaching a length of 285 km, it is the seventh longest river in Bulgaria and the third longest Bulgarian tributary of the Danube. In the middle and lower course, ...

, in the central Danubian Plain, 32 kilometres from

Svishtov Svishtov ( ) List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous S ...

and 45 kilometres from the provincial capital of Ruse.

Demographics

In the 2011 census, Novgrad was home to a small population of 957 inhabitants. The vast majority of its population, or 67.2%, were ethnic

Bulgarians Bulgarians (, ) are a nation and South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language. They form the majority of the population in Bulgaria, ...

, with a substantial minority of

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(28.52%), while 4.17% of the population gave no identification of their ethnicity, and 0.41% were classified as "others".

References

Villages in Ruse Province {{RuseBG-geo-stub