Tutrakan 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 Silistra Province

Silistra Province

Silistra Province is a province of Bulgaria, named after its main city - Silistra. It is divided into 7 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 127,659 inhabitants....

, Northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, 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 town of Tutrakan

Tutrakan

Tutrakan is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous municipality, part of Silistra Province. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite the Romanian town of Olteniţa , in the very west of Southern Dobruja, 58 km east of Rousse and 62 km...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 448.35 km² with a population of 16,920 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road 21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra

Silistra

Silistra is a port city of northeastern Bulgaria, lying on the southern bank of the lower Danube at the country's border with Romania. Silistra is the administrative centre of Silistra Province and one of the important cities of the historical region of Southern Dobrudzha...

 with the city of Ruse.

Settlements

Tutrakan Municipality includes the following 15 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Tutrakan Tutrakan Tutrakan is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous municipality, part of Silistra Province. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite the Romanian town of Olteniţa , in the very west of Southern Dobruja, 58 km east of Rousse and 62 km...	Тутракан	9,476
Antimovo	Антимово	60
Belitsa	Белица	612
Brenitsa	Бреница	234
Dunavets	Дунавец	20
Nova Cherna Nova Cherna Nova Cherna is a village on the Danube, in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Tutrakan Municipality, Silistra Province. The current name is derived from the commune of Cerna in Northern Dobruja...	Нова Черна	1,763
Pozharevo	Пожарево	129
Preslavtsi	Преславци	574
Staro Selo	Старо село	997
Shumentsi	Шуменци	548
Syanovo	Сяново	112
Tarnovtsi	Търновци	447
Tsar Samuil	Цар Самуил	1,486
Tsarev Dol	Царев дол	81
Varnentsi	Варненци	381
Total		16,920

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

• Official website