Teteven 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 Lovech Province

Lovech Province

Lovech Province is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.-Municipalities:...

, Central-North Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Teteven

Teteven

Teteven is a town on the banks of the Vit river, at the foot of Stara Planina mountain in north central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Teteven Municipality which is a part of Lovech Province. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 10,613 inhabitants.The town...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 697 km² with a population of 22,016 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road E772

European route E772

European route E772 is a class B road, part of the International E-road network in Bulgaria. It connects the two sections of the Hemus motorway constructed so far, and is part of one of the most important transport corridors in the country: from the capital Sofia in the west to Varna and the...

 crosses the area through the northernmost parts of the municipality.

Settlements

Teteven Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Teteven Teteven Teteven is a town on the banks of the Vit river, at the foot of Stara Planina mountain in north central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Teteven Municipality which is a part of Lovech Province. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 10,613 inhabitants.The town...	Тетевен	10,613
Babintsi	Бабинци	272
Balgarski Izvor	Български извор	1,304
Chermi Vit	Черни Вит	722
Divchovoto	Дивчовото	187
Galata	Галата	2,532
Glogovo	Глогово	1,472
Glozhene	Гложене	1,059
Golyam Izvor	Голям извор	529
Gradezhnitsa	Градежница	1,789
Malka Zhelyazna	Малка Желязна	144
Ribaritsa Ribaritsa, Lovech Province Ribaritsa is a village in Teteven Municipality, Lovech Province. It lies at the foot of the Teteven Balkan Mountains, on the banks of the Beli Vit River, 12 kilometres from Teteven, 74 kilometres southwest of Lovech and 138 kilometres northeast of Sofia. Due to its mountainous location 701 metres...	Рибарица	1,137
Vasilyovo	Васильово	256
Total		22,016

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