Varshets Municipality

Varshets Municipality (Община Вършец) is a municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located on the northern slopes of the western Stara planina mountain to the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Varshets.

The municipality embraces a territory of 240 km2 with a population of 8,108 inhabitants, as of February 2011.

Todorini Kukli peak, 1,785 m, is located in the southwestern part of the area almost on the very border with Berkovitsa Municipality.

Settlements
Varshets Municipality includes the following 9 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: