Balchik Municipality


Balchik Municipality is a municipality in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Balchik.
The municipality embraces a territory of 523 km² with a population of 21,832 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The area is best known with the Balchik Palace complex in the main town as well as the luxury seaside resort of Albena.
The main road E87 crosses the municipality connecting the port of Varna with the Romanian port of Konstanza.

Settlements

Balchik Municipality includes the following 22 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
BalchikБалчик12,196
BezvoditsaБезводица383
BobovetsБобовец86
BryastovoБрястово4
DroplaДропла304
DabravaДъбрава216
GurkovoГурково560
HrabrovoХраброво99
KarvunaКарвуна62
KranevoКранево1,233
KremenaКремена128
LyahovoЛяхово444
ObrochishteОброчище2,411
PrespaПреспа248
RogachevoРогачево263
SenokosСенокос661
SokolovoСоколово1,004
StrazhitsaСтражица468
TrigortsiТригорци192
TsarichinoЦаричино159
TsarkvaЦърква364
ZmeevoЗмеево347
Total21,832

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: