Dulovo Municipality is a municipality

Municipality

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 (obshtina) in Silistra Province

Silistra Province

Silistra Province is a province of Bulgaria, named after its main city - Silistra. It is divided into 7 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 127,659 inhabitants....

, Northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located in the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

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, in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region, about 25 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dulovo

Dulovo, Bulgaria

Dulovo is a town in Silistra Province in northeastern Bulgaria, the historical region of Southern Dobruja. As the administrative centre of the homonymous Dulovo Municipality, it is the third largest town in the province after Silistra and Tutrakan...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 566.33 km² with a population of 28,860 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road I-7 crosses the area from north to south, connecting the province centre of Silistra

Silistra

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 with the city of Shumen

Shumen

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 and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway

Hemus motorway

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Settlements

Dulovo Municipality includes the following 27 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Dulovo Dulovo, Bulgaria Dulovo is a town in Silistra Province in northeastern Bulgaria, the historical region of Southern Dobruja. As the administrative centre of the homonymous Dulovo Municipality, it is the third largest town in the province after Silistra and Tutrakan...	Дулово	6,621
Boil Boil, Bulgaria Boil is a village in northeastern Bulgaria. It is located in the Dulovo Municipality municipality, Silistra District. In 2011 it had a population of 890 inhabitants.-External links:*...	Боил	954
Cherkovna	Черковна	599
Chernolik	Чернолик	1,425
Chernik	Черник	2,299
Dolets	Долец	533
Grancharovo	Грънчарово	505
Kozyak	Козяк	362
Kolobar	Колобър	532
Mezhden	Межден	691
Oven	Овен	1,011
Okorsh	Окорш	1,617
Oreshene	Орешене	399
Paisievo	Паисиево	870
Polkovnik Taslakovo	Полковник Таслаково	435
Poroyno	Поройно	1,248
Pravda	Правда	1,664
Prohlada	Прохлада	250
Razdel	Раздел	624
Ruyno	Руйно	857
Sekulovo	Секулово	920
Skala	Скала	212
Vodno	Водно	921
Vokil	Вокил	1,227
Varbino	Върбино	100
Yarebitsa	Яребица	1,357
Zlatoklas	Златоклас	627
Total		28,860

Demography

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

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
  Provinces of Bulgaria
  Since 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 Bulgaria
  Municipalities of Bulgaria
  The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 264 municipalities .-Blagoevgrad Province:# Bansko Municipality # Belitsa Municipality # Blagoevgrad Municipality...
  
  
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

External links

• Official website