Devnya Municipality

Devnya Municipality (Община Девня) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Devnya.

The municipality embraces a territory of 100.98 km2 with a population, as of December 2009, of 9,234 inhabitants. The area is crossed by the east operating part of Hemus motorway which is planned to connect the port of Varna with the country capital - Sofia.

Settlements
Devnya Municipality includes the following 3 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:

An overwhelming majority of the population of Devnya Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 77.8% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.