Ruen Municipality (
Bulgarian: Община Руен, ''Obshtina Ruen'') is a municipality in
Burgas Province
Burgas (, formerly the Burgas okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The province is named after its administrative and industrial centre, the city of Burgas, the fourth biggest town in the countr ...
,
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 ...
. It includes the town of
Ruen and a number of villages.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the majority of the population declared to be part of the
Turkish minority of Bulgarian. The municipality of Ruen has one of the highest concentration of
Bulgarian Turks in the country with 87% its population belonging to this ethnic group.
The percentage of ethnic
Bulgarians
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is less than 7%, which is one of the lowest in Bulgaria. The municipality has also one of the highest share of
Muslim
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s: 87.5% declared to be part of the
Muslim minority in Bulgaria.
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:
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Municipalities in Burgas Province