Apriltsi Municipality

Apriltsi Municipality (Община Априлци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, 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 Apriltsi.

The municipality embraces a territory of 240 km2 with a population of 3,554 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area covers parts of the Central Balkan National Park which is listed as Category 2 by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Settlements
Apriltsi Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):

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: