title: Rila Municipality
text: # Rila Municipality
  
  Rila Municipality (Bulgarian: Рила) is located in southeastern Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria. Its administrative centre is Rila. The municipality covers an area of 361 square kilometres (139 sq mi), of which 54.84% is forests and only 19.3% is arable.. As of 2009, the population was 3606.
  
  Locations in Rila Municipality include:
  
  * Padala
  * Pastra
  * Rila (administrative centre)
  * Rila Monastery
  * Smochevo
  
  Several peaks higher than 2,000 metres are part of the municipality, including Rilets (2,731 m), Yosifitsa (2,697 m), Kanarata (2,619 m), Zliya Zab (2,678 m), Kalin (2,667 m), Elenin Vrah (2,654 m) and Tsarev Vrah (2,378 m). The municipality also boasts 28 mountain lakes. The area is also rich in medieval Bulgarian Orthodox churches and monasteries.
  
  ## Demography
  
  ### 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 Rila Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  91.6%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.9%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.7%
  
  Islam
  
  0.4%
  
  No religion
  
  1.6%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  4.8% :
  
  