Svishtov Municipality

Svishtov Municipality (Община Свищов) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain along the right bank of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Svishtov.

The municipality embraces a territory of 625.5 km2 with a population of 49,817 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements
Svishtov 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: