title: Medkovets Municipality
text: # Medkovets Municipality
  
  Medkovets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Медковец) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the area of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Medkovets.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 188 $km^2$ (73 sq mi) with a population of 3,939 inhabitants, as of February 2011.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Medkovets Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Medkovets | Медковец | 1,850 |
  | Asparuhovo | Аспарухово | 556 |
  | Pishurka | Пишурка | 124 |
  | Rasovo | Расово | 1,297 |
  | Slivovik | Сливовик | 483 |
  | Total | | 4,310 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Medkovets Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 9,463 | 7,640 | 6,849 | 5,661 | 4,856 | 4,571 | 4,310 | 3,939 |
  | 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 Medkovets Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  73.9%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.2%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.4%
  
  Islam
  
  0.0%
  
  No religion
  
  16.4%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  9.1% :
  
  