Kaolinovo is a town in 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...

, part of Shumen Province

Shumen Province

-Religion:Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:-Transportation:Shumen lies on the main route between Varna and Sofia and is served by numerous trains and buses serving the city. The city is also very well connected with Istanbul which serves the large Turkish community in...

. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Kaolinovo Municipality

Kaolinovo Municipality

Kaolinovo Municipality is a municipality in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain...

, which lies in the northern part of Shumen Province. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 1,538 inhabitants.

Kaolinovo was named after its main product: the municipality is rich in high-quality kaolin (china clay), with a mine and an ore dressing plant present. The reserves amount to 65 million tonne

Tonne

The tonne, known as the metric ton in the US , often put pleonastically as "metric tonne" to avoid confusion with ton, is a metric system unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. The tonne is not an International System of Units unit, but is accepted for use with the SI...

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Municipality

Kaolinovo municipality includes the following 16 places:

Branichevo Doyrantsi Dolina Gusla Kaolinovo Kliment Lisi Vrah Lyatno

Naum Omarchevo Pristoe Sini Vir Sredkovets Takach Todor Ikonomovo Zagoriche

External links

• Kaolinovo municipality website