Lukovit Municipality is a municipality

Municipality

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 (obshtina) in Lovech Province

Lovech Province

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, Central-North Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located from the Fore-Balkan area to the southern parts of Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

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

Lukovit

Lukovit is a town in northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Province. It is situated on both banks of the Zlatna Panega between the Danubian Plain and the foot of Stara Planina. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 9,630 inhabitants....

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The municipality embraces a territory of 454.22 km² with a population of 19,469 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The west operating part of Hemus motorway

Hemus motorway

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 is planned to continue through the area linking the province centre Lovech

Lovech

Lovech is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of 36,296 as of February 2011. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The town is located about 150 km northeast from the capital city of Sofia...

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Settlements

Lukovit Municipality includes the following 12 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Lukovit Lukovit Lukovit is a town in northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Province. It is situated on both banks of the Zlatna Panega between the Danubian Plain and the foot of Stara Planina. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 9,630 inhabitants....	Луковит	9,630
Aglen	Ъглен	836
Bezhanovo	Бежаново	1,497
Belentsi	Беленци	448
Dermantsi	Дерманци	2,348
Daben	Дъбен	149
Karlukovo	Карлуково	782
Petrevene Petrevene Petrevene is a village in north central Bulgaria on the left bank of Zlatna Panega river. It is in Lukovit Municipality, part of Lovech Province and lies on the main road E83, away from the county centre Lukovit -Etymology:Petrevene was first recorded in a written document in the far 1430.Past...	Петревене	690
Peshterna	Пещерна	148
Rumyantsevo	Румянцево	823
Todorichene	Тодоричене	499
Toros	Торос	1,619
Total		19,469

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Lukovit Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dermantsi 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