Novo Selo Municipality, Bulgaria
Encyclopedia
Novo Selo Municipality is a frontier municipality
(obshtina) in Vidin Province
, Northwestern Bulgaria
, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain
. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Novo Selo
. The area borders on Romania
beyond the Danube to the north.
The municipality embraces a territory of 109.5 km² with a population of 3,381 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
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 Vidin Province
Vidin Province
Vidin Province is the northwesternmost province of Bulgaria. It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast. Its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river. The area is divided into 11 municipalities...
, Northwestern 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 along the right bank of Danube river in 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 village of Novo Selo
Novo Selo, Vidin Province
Novo Selo is a village in northwesternmost Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It lies on the right bank of the Danube and is the administrative centre of a municipality with the same name....
. The area borders on Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
beyond the Danube to the north.
The municipality embraces a territory of 109.5 km² with a population of 3,381 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
Settlements
Novo Selo Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Selo Novo Selo, Vidin Province Novo Selo is a village in northwesternmost Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It lies on the right bank of the Danube and is the administrative centre of a municipality with the same name.... |
Ново село | 1,144 |
| Florentin | Флорентин | 406 |
| Negovanovtsi Negovanovtsi Negovanovtsi is a village located in Novo Selo Municipality, part of Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria. The population of the village is 743.-External links:*... |
Неговановци | 708 |
| Vinarovo | Винарово | 833 |
| Yasen | Ясен | 290 |
| Total | 3,381 |
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