Venets 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 Shumen Province

Shumen Province

-Religion:Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:-Transportation:Shumen lies on the main route between Varna and Sofia and is served by numerous trains and buses serving the city. The city is also very well connected with Istanbul which serves the large Turkish community in...

, Northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located in the Ludogorie

Ludogorie

The Ludogorie or Deliorman is a region in northeastern Bulgaria stretching over the plateau of the same name. Major cities in the region are Razgrad, Novi Pazar, Pliska and Isperih...

 geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

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. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Venets

Venets, Shumen Province

Venets is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Venets Municipality, which lies in the northwestern part of Shumen Province...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 222.56 km² with a population of 6,905 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements

Venets Municipality includes the following 13 places, all of them are villages:

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Venets Venets, Shumen Province Venets is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Venets Municipality, which lies in the northwestern part of Shumen Province...	Венец	725
Bortsi	Борци	540
Boyan	Боян	412
Buynovitsa	Буйновица	238
Chernoglavtsi	Черноглавци	471
Dennitsa	Денница	118
Drentsi	Дренци	314
Gabritsa	Габрица	441
Izgrev	Изгрев	744
Kapitan Petko	Капитан Петко	495
Osenovets	Осеновец	382
Strahilitsa	Страхилица	75
Yasenkovo	Ясенково	1,950
Total		6,905

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