Suhindol Municipality

Suhindol Municipality (Община Сухиндол) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, central-north Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Suhindol.

The municipality embraces a territory of 157.55 km2 with a population of 3,046, 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
Suhindol Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):

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

Vital statistics
The municipality of Suhindol has a low birth rate combined with a very high death rate, which makes the natural growth negative.

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: