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Strazhitsa Municipality

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Country
  
Bulgaria

Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)
  
Strazhitsa

Area
  
512 km²

Province (Oblast)
  
Veliko Tarnovo

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
14,742 (Dec 2009)

Strazhitsa Municipality

Strazhitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Стражица) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain but also covering parts of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Strazhitsa.

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Map of Strazhitza, Bulgaria

The municipality embraces a territory of 512 km² with a population of 14,742 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements

Strazhitsa Municipality includes the following 22 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

References

Strazhitsa Municipality Wikipedia