Maritsa Municipality

Maritsa Municipality
Община Марица
Municipality
Interactive map of Maritsa Municipality
Country Bulgaria
ProvincePlovdiv Province
Population
 • Total
30,676

Maritsa Municipality (obshtina) is in Plovdiv Province, southern Bulgaria, on the northern bank of the Maritsa River. It has 30,676 inhabitants, and consists only of villages. The municipality has a thriving industrial base into which approximately €400,000,000 has been invested. Its administrative centre is Plovdiv, despite the city's being outside its borders.

Religion

According to the Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition of the municipality is as follows:

Religious composition of Maritsa Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
 
 84.4%
Catholicism
 
 0.7%
Protestantism
 
 1.7%
Islam
 
 2.3%
No religion
 
 2.9%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 8.0%

Villages in the Maritsa municipality

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Инвестициите в Община Марица достигнаха 400 млн. евро[link removed]
  2. ↑ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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