Vetrino is a village in northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, part of Varna Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Vetrino Municipality

Vetrino Municipality

Vetrino Municipality is a municipality in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre – the village of Vetrino....

, which lies in the western part of the Province. The village is located about 45 kilometres from the provincial capital of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and nearly the same distance from Shumen

Shumen

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. As of December 2009, the village has a population of 1,036 inhabitants.

Vetrino is twinned with Dubňany

Dubnany

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 in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

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 in Ukraine

Ukraine

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 and Yeniçiftlik in Turkey

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.http://www.vetrino.bg/aboutus/docs_reports/Vetrino_2007.pdf

Vetrino Glacier

Vetrino Glacier

Vetrino Glacier is a 3.2 km long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range north of Drinov Peak, northwest of Kostenets Saddle and west of Mount Pisgah and flowing into Drake Passage...

 on Smith Island

Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)

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, South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

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 is named after Vetrino.

East of Vetrino at 43°18'52"N 27°30'25"E, there is Bulgaria's only 750 kV-substation. There are only three other facilities of this kind in the European Union.

Municipality

Vetrino municipality covers an area of 293 square kilometres (of which 206 square kilometres arable) and includes the following 10 places:

Belogradets Dobroplodno Gabarnitsa Mlada Gvardiya Momchilovo

Nevsha Neofit Rilski Sredno Selo Yagnilo Vetrino

External links

• Vetrino municipality website