title: Ugarchin Municipality
text: # Ugarchin Municipality
  
  Ugarchin Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Угърчин) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan to the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Ugarchin.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 523.10 $km^2$ (201.97 sq mi) with a population of 7,181 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  * Dragana (Драгана)
  * Golets (Голец)
  * Kalenik (Каленик)
  * Katunets (Катунец)
  * Kirchevo (Кирчево)
  * Lesidren (Лесидрен)
  * Mikre (Микре)
  * Orlyane (Орляне)
  * Slavshtitsa (Славщица)
  * Sopot (Сопот)
  * Ugarchin (Угърчин)
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Ugarchin Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 15,430 | 12,404 | 10,816 | 8,561 | 7,869 | 7,544 | 7,181 | ... |
  | Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||
  
  ### 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:
  
  Religious composition of Ugarchin Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  68.3%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.8%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.0%
  
  Islam
  
  1.5%
  
  No religion
  
  20.6%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  8.8% :
  
  