Sitovo Municipality is a small 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 Silistra Province

Silistra Province

Silistra Province is a province of Bulgaria, named after its main city - Silistra. It is divided into 7 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 127,659 inhabitants....

, Northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

The Danubian Plain constitutes the northern part of Bulgaria, situated north of the Balkan Mountains and south of the Danube. Its western border is the Timok River and to the east it borders the Black Sea. The plain has an area of . It is about long and wide.The relief of the Danubian Plain is...

 in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Sitovo

Sitovo, Silistra Province

Sitovo is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Silistra Province. It is the administrative centre of Sitovo Municipality, which lies in the central part of Silistra Province, 25 kilometres west of the provincial capital of Silistra, in the historical region of Southern Dobruja...

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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

Silistra

Silistra is a port city of northeastern Bulgaria, lying on the southern bank of the lower Danube at the country's border with Romania. Silistra is the administrative centre of Silistra Province and one of the important cities of the historical region of Southern Dobrudzha...

 with the city of Ruse.

Settlements

Sitovo Municipality includes the following 12 places all of them villages:

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Sitovo Sitovo, Silistra Province Sitovo is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Silistra Province. It is the administrative centre of Sitovo Municipality, which lies in the central part of Silistra Province, 25 kilometres west of the provincial capital of Silistra, in the historical region of Southern Dobruja...	Ситово	847
Bosna	Босна	371
Dobrotitsa	Добротица	434
Garvan	Гарван	421
Irnik	Ирник	104
Iskra	Искра	1,856
Lyuben	Любен	654
Nova Popina	Нова Попина	88
Polyan	Поляна	176
Popina	Попина	701
Slatina	Слатина	132
Yastrebna Yastrebna Yastrebna is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Sitovo Municipality, Silistra Province. The village has a population of 11 people. There is a stone-pit near the village. Yastrebna lies at , 129 m above sea level.The mayor is Edjevit Shaban....	Ястребна	26
Total		5,810

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

• Official website