Yakimovo Municipality

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Yakimovo Municipality

| native_name = Община Якимово

| settlement_type = Municipality

| image_shield =

| image_map = Yakimovo Municipality Within Bulgaria.png

| map_caption = Yakimovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province.

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{BUL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Province {{smaller|(Oblast)}}

| subdivision_name1 = Montana

| subdivision_type2 = Admin. centre {{smaller|(Obshtinski tsentar)}}

| subdivision_name2 = Yakimovo

| timezone = EET

| utc_offset = +2

| timezone_DST = EEST

| utc_offset_DST = +3

| coordinates = {{coord|43|38|N|23|20|E|region:BG|display=inline,title}}

| area_footnotes =

| area_total_km2 = 221.96

|population_footnotes =

|population_as_of = Census February 2011

|population_total = 4,252

| population_density_km2 = auto

| website =

}}

Yakimovo Municipality ({{langx|bg|Община Якимово}}) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the area of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Yakimovo.

The municipality embraces a territory of {{cvt|221.96|km2}} with a population of 4,252 inhabitants, as of February 2011.{{in lang|bg}}[http://www.nsi.bg/census2011/pagebg2.php?p2=36&sp2=91&SSPP2=92 National Statistical Institute - Census 2011]

Settlements

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{{Image label small|x=0.90|y=2.13|scale=100|text=Berkovitsa}}

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{{Image label small|x=1.60|y=1.35|scale=100|text=Boychinovtsi}}

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{{Image label small|x=0.60|y=0.88|scale=100|text=Brusartsi}}

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{{Image label small|x=0.35|y=1.62|scale=100|text=Chiprovtsi}}

{{Image label small|x=0.87|y=1.73|scale=100|text=}}

{{Image label small|x=0.52|y=1.81|scale=100|text=Georgi Damyanovo}}

{{Image label small|x=1.40|y=0.30|scale=100|text=}}

{{Image label small|x=1.40|y=0.38|scale=100|text=Lom}}

{{Image label small|x=1.25|y=0.97|scale=100|text=}}

{{Image label small|x=1.10|y=0.89|scale=100|text=Medkovets}}

{{Image label small|x=1.90|y=0.75|scale=100|text=}}

{{Image label small|x=1.75|y=0.67|scale=100|text=Valchedram}}

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{{Image label small|x=1.35|y=2.43|scale=100|text=Varshets}}

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{{Image label small|x=1.47|y=1.01|scale=100|text=Yakimovo}}

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Yakimovo Municipality includes the following 4 places all of them villages:

class="wikitable sortable"

! Town/Village

! Cyrillic

! Population{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/otrasalen.php?otr=53&a1=1583&a2=1584&a3=1588#cont Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009]{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/nrnm/index.php?ezik=en&f=8&s=1&date=29.12.2010&e=1&s1=4&c1=2&a1=1000&c=0 Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009]{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/nrnm/index.php?ezik=en&f=8&s=1&date=29.12.2010&e=1&s1=4&c1=3&a1=1000&c=1&s2=4&c2=2&a2=5000 Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009]
(December 2009)

Yakimovo

| Якимово

| align="center" | 1,698

Dalgodeltsi

| Дългоделци

| align="center" | 931

Dolno Tserovene

| Долно Церовене

| align="center" | 854

Komoshtitsa

| Комощица

| align="center" | 1,052

Total

!

! align="center" | 4,535

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

{{Table BG Municipality population

| municipality = Yakimovo

| 1975 = 10,552

| 1985 = 8,030

| 1992 = 7,099

| 2001 = 5,885

| 2005 = 5,105

| 2007 = 4,793

| 2009 = 4,535

| 2011 = 4,252

| ref 1 = {{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/otrasalen.php?otr=53&a1=1583&a2=1584&a3=1585#cont Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009]{{in lang|bg}}[http://statlib.nsi.bg:8181/isisbgstat/ssp/lister.asp?content=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1985_1988/DN_21_2_1985_1988_P*.pdf&from=1&to=464&index=&cont=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1985_1988/DN_21_2_1985_1988_content.pdf&type=%F1%F2%F0%E0%ED%E8%F6%E8 National Statistical Institute - Municipalities population 1985]{{in lang|bg}}[http://statlib.nsi.bg:8181/isisbgstat/ssp/lister.asp?content=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1992_1994/DN_21_2_1992_1994_P*.pdf&from=1&to=282&index=&cont=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1992_1994/DN_21_2_1992_1994_content.pdf&type=%F1%F2%F0%E0%ED%E8%F6%E8 National Statistical Institute - Municipalities population 1992]

| ref 2 = {{in lang|en}}[http://www.nsi.bg/Census_e/Census_e.htm National Statistical Institute - Census 2001]

| ref 3 = {{in lang|bg}}[http://www.nsi.bg/census2011/pagebg2.php?p2=36&sp2=91&SSPP2=92 National Statistical Institute - Census 2011]

| ref 4 = [http://pop-stat.mashke.org/bulgaria-division.htm „pop-stat.mashke.org“]

}}

= 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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|width=300px

|title=Religious composition of Yakimovo Municipality {{cite web|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/bulgaria-religion2011.htm|title=Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011|website=pop-stat.mashke.org}}

|titlebar=#ddd

|bars=

{{bar percent|Orthodox Christianity|blue|84.4}}

{{bar percent|Catholicism|purple|0.3}}

{{bar percent|Protestantism|yellow|1.1}}

{{bar percent|Islam|green|0.0}}

{{bar percent|No religion|red|6.7}}

{{bar percent|Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable|gray|7.5}}

}}

See also

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