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Vidin Municipality

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Country
  
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)
  
Area
  
501 km²

Province (Oblast)
  
Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
66,126 (Dec 2009)


Vidin Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Видин) is a municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Vidin which is also the capital of the province.

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Map of Vidin, Bulgaria

The municipality embraces a territory of 501 km² with a population of 66,126 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road E79 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin with the city of Montana and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Vidin Municipality includes the following 34 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Vidin Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dunavtsi and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:

References

Vidin Municipality Wikipedia


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