title: Lom Municipality
text: # Lom Municipality
  
  Lom Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лом) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre — the town of Lom which is one of the important Bulgarian river ports. The area borders Romania across the Danube.
  
  The municipality encompasses a territory of 323.89 $km^2$ (125.05 sq mi) with a population of 27,294 inhabitants, as of February 2011.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Lom | Лом | 24,300 |
  | Dobri Dol | Добри дол | 334 |
  | Dolno Linevo | Долно Линево | 266 |
  | Kovachitsa | Ковачица | 1,255 |
  | Orsoya | Орсоя | 133 |
  | Slivata | Сливата | 225 |
  | Staliyska Mahala | Сталийска махала | 1,369 |
  | Stanevo | Станево | 364 |
  | Traykovo | Трайково | 932 |
  | Zamfir | Замфир | 1,020 |
  | Total | | 30,198 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Lom Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 43,672 | 42,950 | 40,262 | 35,077 | 32,135 | 31,170 | 30,198 | 27,294 |
  | 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 Lom Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  56.3%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.4%
  
  Protestantism
  
  6.1%
  
  Islam
  
  0.1%
  
  No religion
  
  8.0%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  29.1% :
  
  