Country Bulgaria Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) Dolna Mitropoliya Area 674.8 km² Local time Thursday 7:23 PM | Province (Oblast) Pleven Time zone EET (UTC+2) Population 21,304 (Dec 2009) | |
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Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долна Митрополия) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It embraces a territory of 674.81 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 21,304 inhabitants. The administrative centre of the area is the homonymous town of Dolna Mitropoliya.
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Map of Dolna Mitropolia, Bulgaria
The northern boundary of the municipality is the Danube River, and the 10,926 hectare Natura 2000 Reka Vit Special Protection Area for preservation of avian habitat is located there.
Settlements
(towns are shown in bold):
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Podem and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.