Satovcha Municipality
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| name = Satovcha Municipality
| native_name = Община Сатовча
| settlement_type = Municipality
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Bulgaria
| subdivision_type1 = Province (Oblast)
| subdivision_name1 = Blagoevgrad
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| area_total_km2 = 332.59
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| population_total = 16003
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Satovcha Municipality is a municipality in southwestern Bulgaria and is one of the municipalities in the Blagoevgrad Province.
Geography
It covers the Southwestern Rhodope Mountains. 14 settlemements belong to the municipality with a total of {{formatnum:18997}} inhabitants (21.07.05) and a territory of {{formatnum:334245}} km2. Administrative, industrial and cultural center of the municipality is the village of Satovcha.
Population
As of December 2018, there are 14,263 inhabitants living in the municipality of Satovcha, down from 18,265 inhabitants in 2000. The municipality of Satovcha has a Muslim majority (over 85% of the total population). Nearly all of them are Bulgarian Muslims (on the contrary, most Muslims in Bulgaria are ethnic Turks).
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| align="center"| Population ||align="center"| Live births || align="center"|Deaths || align="center"| Natural growth || align="center"|Birth rate (‰) || align="center"|Death rate (‰) || align="center"| Natural growth rate (‰) | |||||||
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| align="center"| 2000 | 18,265 | 204 | 130 | 74 | 11.2 | 7.1 | 4.1 |
| align="center"| 2001 | 17,770 | 146 | 156 | -10 | 8.2 | 8.8 | -0.6 |
| align="center"| 2002 | 17,635 | 186 | 121 | 65 | 10.5 | 6.9 | 3.7 |
| align="center"| 2003 | 17,576 | 185 | 142 | 43 | 10.5 | 8.1 | 2.4 |
| align="center"| 2004 | 17,501 | 188 | 122 | 66 | 10.7 | 7.0 | 3.8 |
| align="center"| 2005 | 17,428 | 181 | 148 | 33 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 1.9 |
| align="center"| 2006 | 17,318 | 178 | 156 | 22 | 10.3 | 9.0 | 1.3 |
| align="center"| 2007 | 17,269 | 192 | 158 | 34 | 11.1 | 9.1 | 2.0 |
| align="center"| 2008 | 17,264 | 216 | 157 | 59 | 12.5 | 9.1 | 3.4 |
| align="center"| 2009 | 17,152 | 168 | 154 | 14 | 9.8 | 9.0 | 0.8 |
| align="center"| 2010 | 17,009 | 140 | 143 | -3 | 8.2 | 8.4 | -0.2 |
| align="center"| 2011 | 15,290 | 135 | 167 | -32 | 8.8 | 10.9 | -2.1 |
| align="center"| 2012 | 15,138 | 121 | 145 | -24 | 8.0 | 9.6 | -1.6 |
| align="center"| 2013 | 14,970 | 117 | 169 | -52 | 7.8 | 11.3 | -3.5 |
| align="center"| 2014 | 14,829 | 138 | 157 | -19 | 9.3 | 10.6 | -1.3 |
| align="center"| 2015 | 14,681 | 121 | 141 | -20 | 8.2 | 9.6 | -1.4 |
| align="center"| 2016 | 14,498 | 121 | 142 | -21 | 8.3 | 9.8 | -1.4 |
| align="center"| 2017 | 14,353 | 93 | 163 | -70 | 6.5 | 11.4 | -4.9 |
| align="center"| 2018 | 14,263 | 87 | 166 | -79 | 6.1 | 11.6 | -5.5 |
Satovcha has a declining birth rate as young women are moving out of the villages.
= Religion =
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
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|title=Religious composition of Satovcha Municipality {{cite web|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/bulgaria-religion2011.htm|title=Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011|website=pop-stat.mashke.org}}
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{{bar percent|Orthodox Christianity|blue|8.95}}
{{bar percent|Catholicism|purple|0.00}}
{{bar percent|Protestantism|yellow|0.19}}
{{bar percent|Islam|green|85.91}}
{{bar percent|No religion|red|0.71}}
{{bar percent|Prefer not to answer, others and aindefinable|gray|4.24}}
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Settlements in the municipality
References
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External links
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{{Blagoevgrad Province}}
{{Satovcha Municipality}}
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Category:Municipalities in Blagoevgrad Province
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