Sitovo Municipality


Sitovo Municipality is a small municipality in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Sitovo.
The municipality embraces a territory of 270.97 km² with a population of 5,810 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road II-21 crosses the area centrally, from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

Settlements

Sitovo Municipality includes the following 12 places all of them villages:
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
SitovoСитово847
BosnaБосна371
DobrotitsaДобротица434
GarvanГарван421
IrnikИрник104
IskraИскра1,856
LyubenЛюбен654
Nova PopinaНова Попина88
PolyanПоляна176
PopinaПопина701
SlatinaСлатина132
YastrebnaЯстребна26
Total5,810

Demography

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

Ethnic groups

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the plurality in Sitovo Municipality. Turks form the second largest ethnic group and Roma people form the third largest ethnic group.

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:
Most Bulgarians are Orthodox Christians, while most Turks and Roma people are Muslim.