Dolni Dabnik Municipality is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 (obshtina) in Pleven Province

Pleven Province

Pleven Province is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It is divided into 11 subdivisions, called municipalities, that embrace a territory of 4,333.54 km² with a population, as...

, Northern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Dabnik

Dolni Dabnik

Dolni Dabnik is a town in Pleven Province in the Danubian Plain of central northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of Dolni Dabnik municipality and lies to the west of the city of Pleven. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 4,761 inhabitants.Dolni Dabnik was first...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 310 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,438 inhabitants.

Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Dolni Dabnik Dolni Dabnik Dolni Dabnik is a town in Pleven Province in the Danubian Plain of central northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of Dolni Dabnik municipality and lies to the west of the city of Pleven. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 4,761 inhabitants.Dolni Dabnik was first...	Долни Дъбник	4,761
Barkach	Бъркач	760
Gorni Dabnik	Горни Дъбник	1,914
Gradina Gradina, Pleven Province Gradina is a village in Dolni Dabnik municipality, Pleven Province, located in central northern Bulgaria. As of December 2009, it has a population of 842 inhabitants. Gradina lies at ....	Градина	842
Krushovitsa	Крушовица	2,051
Petarnitsa	Петърница	1,720
Sadovets	Садовец	2,390
Total		14,438

Demography

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

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
  Provinces of Bulgaria
  Since 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces which correspond approximately to the 28 districts that existed before 1987. In 1987, during the Communist regime of Todor Zhivkov, the districts were consolidated into nine larger provinces , which survived until 1999.Each province is named...
  
  
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
  Municipalities of Bulgaria
  The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 264 municipalities .-Blagoevgrad Province:# Bansko Municipality # Belitsa Municipality # Blagoevgrad Municipality...
  
  
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

External links

• Dolni Dabnik municipality at Domino.bg