Valchedram Municipality () is a frontier
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
(''
obshtina'') in
Montana Province
Montana Province (, transliterated: ''Oblast Montana'') is a Provinces of Bulgaria, province in northwestern Bulgaria, bordering Serbia in the southwest and Romania in the north. It spreads its area between the Danube river and the Balkan Mountai ...
, Northwestern
Bulgaria
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, located along the right bank of
Danube river in the
Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of
Valchedram. The area borders on
Romania
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beyond the Danube to the north.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 9,771 inhabitants, as of February 2011.
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Settlements
Valchedram Municipality includes the following 11 places (towns are shown in bold):
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Valchedram Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Zlatiya and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
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:
See also
*Provinces of Bulgaria
A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term ''prov ...
*Municipalities of Bulgaria
The 28 Provinces of Bulgaria, provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities (община, ''obshtina''). Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popul ...
* List of cities and towns in Bulgaria
References
External links
Official website
{{Montana Province
Municipalities in Montana Province