title: Belene Municipality
text: # Belene Municipality
  
  Belene Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Белене) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, northern Bulgaria. It is located along the south bank of Danube river, by the border with Romania. The administrative centre of the area is the homonymous town of Belene.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 285 $km^2$ (110 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 10,908 inhabitants.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Belene | Белене | 8,905 |
  | Byala Voda | Бяла вода | 359 |
  | Dekov | Деков | 545 |
  | Kulina Voda | Кулина вода | 239 |
  | Petokladentsi | Петокладенци | 455 |
  | Tatari | Татари | 405 |
  | Total | | 10,908 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Belene Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 14,683 | 13,251 | 13,857 | 12,581 | 11,739 | 11,321 | 10,908 | ... |
  | 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 Belene Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  52.6%
  
  Catholicism
  
  31.9%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.2%
  
  Islam
  
  1.1%
  
  No religion
  
  6.3%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  7.9% :
  
  Most inhabitants are Christians.
  
  