Kaynardzha Municipality


Kaynardzha Municipality is a municipality in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain, in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region, bounded on the north with Romania. The Danube river is about 25 km away to the north through the Romanian territory. The area is named after its administrative centre – the village of Kaynardzha.
The municipality embraces a territory of 314.96 km² with a population of 5,250 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road II-71 crosses the area from northwest to southeast, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Dobrich.

Settlements

Kaynardzha Municipality includes the following 15 places all of them villages:
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
Population
KaynardzhaКайнарджа783 610
DavidovoДавидово177 200
DobrudzhankaДобруджанка136 112
GoleshГолеш1,370 1,533
GospodinovoГосподиново40n/a
KamentsiКаменци47n/a
KranovoКраново173 89
Polkovnik CholakovoПолковник Чолаково217 245
PoprusanovoПопрусаново41n/a
PosevПосев153 166
SvetoslavСветослав133 96
SredishteСредище1,318 1,363
StrelkovoСтрелково32n/a
VoynovoВойново180 127
ZarnikЗарник450 496
Total5,250 5,115

Demography

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

Demographic indicators

As of 2016, it is one of the few places in Bulgaria with a natural population growth: there were a total of 87 live births, while 66 people died. The crude birth rate is 17.0‰, while the crude death rate is around 12.9‰. The municipality of Kaynardzha has a total fertility rate of 2.57 children per woman, which is much higher than the average for the country.
PopulationLive birthsDeathsNatural growthBirth rate Death rate Natural growth rate
20006,1578499−1513.616.1−2.4
20015,485 89103−1416.218.8−2.6
20025,4277098−2812.918.1−5.2
20035,419 85102−1715.718.8−3.1
20045,3919992+718.417.1+1.3
20055,4097983−414.615.3−0.7
20065,401 9185+616.815.7+1.1
20075,367 7871+714.513.2+1.3
20085,3008772+1516.413.6+2.8
20095,250 8973+1617.013.9+3.0
20105,175 9280+1217.815.5+2.3
20115,059 8193−1216.018.4−2.4
20125,0818073+715.714.4+1.4
20135,1029568+2718.613.3+5.3
20145,096 7954+2515.510.6+4.9
20155,107 7161+1013.911.9+2.0
20165,115 8766+2117.012.9+4.1
20175,099 8085−515.716.7−1.0
20185,076 6163−212.012.4-0.4

Ethnic groups

Turks form the majority of the population of Kaynardzha Municipality. Bulgarians constitutie the largest minority, followed by a large Roma population.

Religion

In 2011, about 67.8% of the total population declared to be Muslim. The municipality of Kaynardzha has the highest share of Shia people in Bulgaria: around 52% of the population declared to be Shia in the census of 2001. About 27% of the population belong to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Age structure

The municipality of Kaynardzha has a very young population compared to other places in Bulgaria.