title: Apriltsi Municipality
text: # Apriltsi Municipality
  
  Apriltsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Априлци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Apriltsi.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 240 $km^2$ (93 sq mi) with a population of 3,554 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
  
  The area covers parts of the Central Balkan National Park which is listed as Category 2 by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Apriltsi Municipality includes the following 4 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Apriltsi | Априлци | 3,207 |
  | Drashkova Polyana | Драшкова поляна | 101 |
  | Skandaloto | Скандалото | 67 |
  | Velchevo | Велчево | 179 |
  | Total | | 3,554 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Apriltsi Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 6,203 | 5,313 | 4,720 | 4,137 | 3,788 | 3,647 | 3,554 | ... |
  | 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 Apriltsi Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  96.8%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.4%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.0%
  
  Islam
  
  0.2%
  
  No religion
  
  1.2%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  1.4% :
  
  