Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality


Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality is a municipality in Veliko Tarnovo Province, central-north Bulgaria. It covers an area of 318 km² with a total population of 48,695 people. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa, which is situated at the foot of Arbanashka Mountain, along the Yantra River.

Settlements

The municipality has 14 settlements.
Note: The place names in bold have the status of town. Other localities have the status of village. The names of localities are transliterated in Latin alphabet, followed in parentheses by the original name in Bulgarian Cyrillic.
Town/VillageCyrillic scriptPopulation
Dolna Oryahovitsa:bg:Долна Оряховица|Долна Оряховица3,027
Draganovo:bg:Драганово |Драганово2,730
Gorna Oryahovitsa:bg:Горна Оряховица|Горна Оряховица32,436
Gorski Dolen Trambesh:bg:Горски Долен Тръмбеш|Горски Долен Тръмбеш381
Gorski Goren Trambesh:bg:Горски Горен Тръмбеш|Горски Горен Тръмбеш202
Krusheto:bg:Крушето|Крушето947
Paisiy:bg:Паисий |Паисий197
Parvomaytsi:bg:Първомайци|Първомайци2,829
Pisarevo:bg:Писарево |Писарево1,079
Polikraishte:bg:Поликрайще|Поликрайще2,029
Pravda:bg:Правда |Правда637
Strelets:bg:Стрелец |Стрелец379
Varbitsa:bg:Върбица |Върбица1,186
Yantra:bg:Янтра |Янтра636
Total48,695

Demography

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

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: