Lovech Municipality

Lovech Municipality (Община Ловеч) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Lovech which is also the capital of the province.

The municipality is 930.8 km2 with a population of 53,578 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area is known with the covered bridge by Kolyu Ficheto, in the main town, and the spectacular Devetaki cave near to the homonymous village.

Settlements
Lovech Municipality includes the following 35 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Lovech Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Aleksandrovo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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: