title: Letnitsa Municipality
text: # Letnitsa Municipality
  
  Letnitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Летница) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Letnitsa.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 178 $km^2$ (69 sq mi) with a population of 5,101 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Letnitsa Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Letnitsa | Летница | 3,739 |
  | Gorsko Slivovo | Горско Сливово | 715 |
  | Krushuna | Крушуна | 505 |
  | Karpachevo | Кърпачево | 142 |
  | Total | | 5,101 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Letnitsa Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 8,043 | 7,201 | 6,752 | 5,607 | 5,392 | 5,258 | 5,101 | ... |
  | 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 Letnitsa Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  71.2%
  
  Catholicism
  
  1.0%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.0%
  
  Islam
  
  10.0%
  
  No religion
  
  9.1%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  8.7% :
  
  