Loznitsa Municipality

Loznitsa Municipality (Община Лозница) is a municipality (obshtina) in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Loznitsa.

The municipality embraces a territory of 249.48 km2 with a population of 9,732 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area contains the Beli Lom Reservoir, developed along the river of the same name. The main road II-49 crosses the municipality from north to south connecting the province centre of Razgrad with the city of Targovishte and respectevly the Danube Bridge with the Kotel pass in the eastern Stara planina mountain.

Settlements
Loznitsa Municipality includes the following 16 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: