Vidin 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 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

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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 city of Vidin

Vidin

Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Serbia and Romania, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin...

 which is also the capital of the province.

The municipality embraces a territory of 501 km² with a population of 66,126 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road E79

European route E70

European route E 70 is an A-Class West-East European route, extending from A Coruña in Spain in the west to the Georgian city of Poti in the east.-Itinerary:...

 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Vidin

Vidin

Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Serbia and Romania, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin...

 with the city of Montana

Montana

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 and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway

Hemus motorway

The Hemus motorway or Haemus motorway , designated A2, is a motorway currently under construction in Bulgaria. Its planned length is 433 km, of which 129 km are in operation , divided into two sections — Sofia-Yablanitsa and Varna-Shumen...

.

Settlements

Vidin Municipality includes the following 34 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Vidin Vidin Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Serbia and Romania, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin...	Видин	49,471
Akatsievo	Акациево	112
Antimovo	Антимово	616
Bela Rada	Бела Рада	608
Botevo	Ботево	82
Bukovets	Буковец	772
Dinkovitsa	Динковица	152
Dolni Boshnyak	Долни Бошняк	77
Druzhba	Дружба	220
Dunavtsi Dunavtsi Dunavtsi is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Municipality, Vidin Province. It lies in the northwestern Danubian Plain, in a small valley adjacent to the Danube River. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 2,743 inhabitants....	Дунавци	2,743
Gaytantsi	Гайтанци	118
General Marinovo	Генерал Мариново	185
Gomotartsi	Гомотарци	798
Gradets	Градец	1,476
Ivanovtsi	Ивановци	113
Inovo	Иново	735
Kalenik	Каленик	279
Kapitanovtsi	Капитановци	1,186
Koshava	Кошава	415
Kutovo	Кутово	837
Mayor Uzunovo	Майор Узуново	334
Novoseltsi	Новоселци	879
Peshakovo	Пешаково
Plakuder	Плакудер	94
Pokrayna	Покрайна	1,301
Ruptsi	Рупци	165
Sinagovtsi	Синаговци	430
Slana Bara	Слана бара	537
Slanotran	Сланотрън	595
Tarnyane	Търняне	166
Tsar Simeonovo	Цар Симеоново	115
Voynitsa	Войница	123
Vartop	Въртоп	97
Zheglitsa	Жеглица	194
Total		66,126

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Vidin Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dunavtsi

Dunavtsi

Dunavtsi is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Municipality, Vidin Province. It lies in the northwestern Danubian Plain, in a small valley adjacent to the Danube River. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 2,743 inhabitants....

 and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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