Strazhitsa Municipality

Strazhitsa Municipality (Община Стражица ) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, north-central Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain but also covering parts of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Strazhitsa.

The municipality has an area of 512 km2 and a population of 14,742 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements
Strazhitsa Municipality includes the following 22 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.