Stolichna Municipality

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The Stolichna Municipality (Bulgarian: Столична община, romanizedStolichna obshtina (also transcribed as Stolična obština), lit.'Capital Municipality') is an obshtina (municipality) in Sofia City Province, Western Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre, the city of Sofia, which is also the capital of Sofia City Province and Sofia Province and the capital of Bulgaria as well.

The municipality is located mainly in the Sofia Valley, and also in the foots and lower parts of the mountains of Stara planina and Vitosha, Plana, Lozen, Rila. As of 2016, it was home to 1,500,927 inhabitants, of which 1,400 million live in Sofia.

Settlements

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Sofia Capital Municipality includes the following 38 places (cities are shown in bold):

Balsha, Bankya, Bistritsa, Buhovo, Busmantsi, Chepintsi, Dobroslavtsi, Dolni Bogrov, Dolni Pasarel, German, Gorni Bogrov, Ivanyane, Jeleznitsa, Jelyava, Jiten, Kazichene, Klisura, Kokalyane, Krivina, Kubratovo, Katina, Lokorsko, Lozen, Malo Buchino, Marchaevo, Mirovyane, Mramor, Negovan, Novi Iskar, Pancharevo, Plana, Podgumer, Sofia, Svetovrachene, Vladaya, Voluyak, Voynegovtsi, Yana

Demography

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Religion

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According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

Religious composition of Sofia Capital Municipality[1]
Orthodox Christianity
86.2%
Catholicism
0.5%
Protestantism
1.0%
Islam
0.7%
No religion
4.9%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
6.7%

References

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  1. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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