Letnitsa Municipality is a small municipality

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 Lovech Province

Lovech Province

Lovech Province is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.-Municipalities:...

, Central-North 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...

, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

The Danubian Plain constitutes the northern part of Bulgaria, situated north of the Balkan Mountains and south of the Danube. Its western border is the Timok River and to the east it borders the Black Sea. The plain has an area of . It is about long and wide.The relief of the Danubian Plain is...

. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Letnitsa

Letnitsa

Letnitsa is a town in central northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Letnitsa Municipality and lies in the northeastern part of the province, close to the town of Levski...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 178 km² with a population of 5,101 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements

Letnitsa Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Letnitsa Letnitsa Letnitsa is a town in central northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Letnitsa Municipality and lies in the northeastern part of the province, close to the town of Levski...	Летница	3,739
Gorsko Slivovo	Горско Сливово	715
Krushuna	Крушуна	505
Karpachevo	Кърпачево	142
Total		5,101

Demography

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

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