Kula Municipality, Bulgaria


Kula Municipality is a municipality in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 10 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Kula. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west.
The municipality embraces a territory of 291 km² with a population of 4,958 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements

Kula Municipality includes the following 9 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
KulaКула3,287
ChichilЧичил82
GolemanovoГолеманово136
Izvor MahalaИзвор махала107
Kosta PerchevoКоста Перчево128
PoletkovtsiПолетковци62
StaropatitsaСтаропатица387
TopolovetsТополовец378
Tsar-PetrovoЦар-Петрово391
Total4,958

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:
An overwhelming majority of the population of Kula Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 87.5% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.