Pleven Municipality is a 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 Pleven Province

Pleven Province

Pleven Province is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It is divided into 11 subdivisions, called municipalities, that embrace a territory of 4,333.54 km² with a population, as...

, Northern 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...

. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Pleven

Pleven

Pleven is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality...

 which is also the capital of the Province.

The municipality embraces a territory of 812.10 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 138,095 inhabitants.

Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Pleven Pleven Pleven is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality...	Плевен	111,426
Beglezh	Беглеж	782
Bohot Bohot Bohot is a village in northern Bulgaria. It is located in the municipality of Pleven in the Pleven Province....	Бохот	880
Brestovets	Брестовец	1,124
Brashlyanitsa	Бръшляница	848
Bukovlak	Буковлък	3,850
Varbitsa	Върбица	656
Gortalovo	Горталово	186
Grivitsa Grivitsa Grivitsa is a village in Pleven Municipality, Pleven Province, central northern Bulgaria. It is primarily known as the site of one of the key battles of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.-Geography:...	Гривица	1,778
Disevitsa	Дисевица	1,127
Koilovtsi	Коиловци	1,123
Kartozhabene	Къртожабене	141
Kashin	Къшин	303
Laskar	Ласкар	129
Mechka	Мечка	849
Nikolaevo	Николаево	740
Opanets	Опанец	1796
Pelishat	Пелишат	794
Radishevo	Радишево	507
Ralevo	Ралево	347
Slavyanovo Slavyanovo Slavyanovo is a town in the Pleven Municipality of the Pleven Province. It lies in the Middle Danubian Plain, to the north-northeast of Pleven. As of December 2009, it has a population of 4,422 inhabitants and the mayor is Asen Bachev...	Славяново	4,422
Todorovo	Тодорово	425
Tuchenitsa	Тученица	339
Tarnene	Търнене	987
Yasen	Ясен	2536
Total		138,095

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

External links

• Municipality of Pleven
• Cities and villages in Pleven municipality — maps, populations, postal and phone codes, facts