Dolni Chiflik Municipality
Encyclopedia
Dolni Chiflik Municipality is a municipality
(obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria
. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Chiflik
.
The municipality spreads from Dalgopol Municipality
in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
in the east. To the north the area is mostly defined by the Kamchiya
river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 487 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 19,316 inhabitants.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
(obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Chiflik
Dolni Chiflik
Dolni Chiflik is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province, located near the Kamchiya River about 14 km away from the Black Sea coast. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dolni Chiflik Municipality...
.
The municipality spreads from Dalgopol Municipality
Dalgopol Municipality
Dalgopol Municipality is a municipality in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dalgopol....
in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...
in the east. To the north the area is mostly defined by the Kamchiya
Kamchiya
The Kamchiya is a 244.5 km long river in eastern Bulgaria, the longest river on the Balkan Peninsula to flow directly into the Black Sea...
river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 487 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 19,316 inhabitants.
Settlements
Dolni Chiflik Municipality includes the following 17 places (towns are shown in bold):| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
|---|---|---|
| Dolni Chiflik Dolni Chiflik Dolni Chiflik is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province, located near the Kamchiya River about 14 km away from the Black Sea coast. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dolni Chiflik Municipality... |
Долни чифлик | 6,706 |
| Bulair | Булаир | 158 |
| Bardarevo | Бърдарево | 87 |
| Detelina | Детелина | 664 |
| Golitsa | Голица | 596 |
| Goren Chiflik | Горен чифлик | 1,450 |
| Grozdyovo | Гроздьово | 2,389 |
| Krivini | Кривини | 110 |
| Nova Shipka | Нова Шипка | 291 |
| Novo Oryahovo | Ново Оряхово | 206 |
| Pchelnik | Пчелник | 1,614 |
| Rudnik | Рудник | 494 |
| Solnik | Солник | 249 |
| Staro Oryahovo | Старо Оряхово | 2,713 |
| Shkorpilovtsi Shkorpilovtsi Shkorpilovtsi is a small village and sea resort in Dolni Chiflik Municipality on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located only 100 m away from one of the most beautiful beaches on the Moesian Black Sea Coast... |
Шкорпиловци | 704 |
| Venelin | Венелин | 818 |
| Yunets | Юнец | 67 |
| Total | 19,316 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.See also
- Provinces of BulgariaProvinces of BulgariaSince 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces which correspond approximately to the 28 districts that existed before 1987. In 1987, during the Communist regime of Todor Zhivkov, the districts were consolidated into nine larger provinces , which survived until 1999.Each province is named...
- Municipalities of BulgariaMunicipalities of BulgariaThe 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 264 municipalities .-Blagoevgrad Province:# Bansko Municipality # Belitsa Municipality # Blagoevgrad Municipality...
- List of cities and towns in Bulgaria