Country Bulgaria License plate OB Population 141,422 (Feb 2011) Municipalities 8 | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Website oblastlovech.org Capital Lovech | |
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Clubs and Teams PFC Litex Lovech, PFC Litex Lovech II Points of interest Krushuna Falls, Troyan Monastery, Beklemeto Pass, Central Balkan National, Lovech Zoo Destinations Central Balkan N, Troyan, Lovech, Teteven, Apriltsi | ||
Lovech Province (Bulgarian: Област Ловеч, transliterated Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.
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Map of Lovec, Bulgaria
Municipalities
The Lovech province (област, oblast) contains eight municipalities (singular: oбщина, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village (in bold), and the population as of December 2009.
Population
The Lovech province had a population of 169,951 according to a 2001 census, of which 7001491000000000000♠49.1% were male and 7001509000000000000♠50.9% were female. As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 151,153 of which 7001294000000000000♠29.4% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.
The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:
Ethnic groups
Total population (2011 census): 141 422
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 130 180 persons:
A further 11,000 persons in the Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census
In the 2001 census, 167,877 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified themselves as belonging to one of the following ethnic groups (with percentage of total population):
Language
In the 2001 census, 168,307 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified one of the following as their mother tongue (with percentage of total population): 154,157 Bulgarian (7001907000000000000♠90.7%), 6,994 Turkish (7000410009999999999♠4.1%), 6,033 Roma (Gypsy) (7000350000000000000♠3.5%), and 1,123 other (6999700000000000000♠0.7%).
Religion
Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census: