Strelcha Municipality () is in southern
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 ...
, part of
Pazardzhik Province
Pazardzhik Province ( ''Oblast Pazardzhik'', former name Pazardzhik okrug) is a province in Southern Bulgaria, named after its administrative and industrial centre: the city of Pazardzhik. The territory is that is divided into 12 municipaliti ...
. The territory is part of
Sredna Gora
Sredna Gora ( ) is a mountain range in central Bulgaria, situated south of and parallel to the Balkan Mountains and extending from the river Iskar (river), Iskar to the west and the elbow of river Tundzha north of the city of Yambol to the east. ...
mountain, with the lowest point 304 m
AMSL
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level v ...
and the highest - 1,572 m AMSL. The railway connecting
Panagyurishte
Panagyurishte (, also transliterated ''Panagjurište'', ) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, situated in a small valley in the Sredna Gora mountains. It is 91 km east of Sofia, 43 km north of Pazardzhik. The town is ...
Town with
Plovdiv
Plovdiv (, ) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, second-largest city in Bulgaria, 144 km (93 miles) southeast of the capital Sofia. It had a population of 490,983 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is a cultural hub ...
City passes through the municipality.
Settlements
Beyond the capital,
Strelcha Town, there are four villages in the municipality:
*
Blatnitsa
*
Dyulevo
*
Smilets
*
Svoboda
Svoboda () means "freedom" in various Slavic languages. It may refer to:
People
* Svoboda (surname)
Organizations Media
* Radio Svoboda, operated by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
* ''Svoboda'' (newspaper), a daily Ukrainian language newspa ...
Demography
At the 2011 census, the population of Strelcha was 4,913. Most of the inhabitants (74.04%) were Bulgarians, and there was a significant minority of Gypsies/Romani (5.84%).
19.76% of the population's ethnicity was unknown.
External links
Strelcha municipality website
References
{{Pazardzhik Province
Municipalities in Pazardzhik Province