title: Pordim Municipality
text: # Pordim Municipality
  
  Pordim Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Пордим) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Pordim.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 255 $km^2$ (98 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 7,114 inhabitants.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Pordim | Пордим | 2,117 |
  | Borislav | Борислав | 278 |
  | Valchitran | Вълчитрън | 1,102 |
  | Zgalevo | Згалево | 682 |
  | Kamenets | Каменец | 972 |
  | Kateritsa | Катерица | 91 |
  | Odarne | Одърне | 1,057 |
  | Totleben | Тотлебен | 815 |
  | Total | | 7,114 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Pordim Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 13,041 | 10,480 | 9,607 | 8,179 | 7,654 | 7,420 | 7,114 | ... |
  | 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 Pordim Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  83.7%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.5%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.0%
  
  Islam
  
  2.4%
  
  No religion
  
  9.5%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  3.9% :
  
  