Boynitsa Municipality

Boynitsa Municipality

Община Бойница
Boynitsa Municipality Община Бойница
Municipality
	Boynitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
	Coordinates: 43°58′N 22°30′E / 43.967°N 22.500°E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Vidin
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Boynitsa
Area
• Total	166 km2 (64 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	780
• Density	4.7/km2 (12/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Boynitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Бойница) is a small frontier municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 20 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Boynitsa. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west and northwest.

The municipality embraces a territory of 166 km² (64 sq mi) with a population of 1,717 inhabitants, as of December 2009.^[1]

Settlements

Vidin

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Chuprene

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Belogradchik

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Boynitsa

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Bregovo

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Gramada

•

Dimovo

•

Kula

•

Makresh

•

Novo Selo

•

Ruzhintsi

Boynitsa Municipality includes the following 8 places all of them villages:

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population^[2]^[3]^[4] (December 2009)
Boynitsa	Бойница	595
Borilovets	Бориловец	299
Gradskovski Kolibi	Градсковски колиби	67
Kanits	Каниц	15
Perilovets	Периловец	91
Rabrovo	Раброво	468
Shipikova Mahala	Шипикова махала	8
Shishentsi	Шишенци	174
Total		1,717

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Boynitsa Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	5,466	4,111	3,317	2,270	1,947	1,913	1,717	1,341
Sources: Census 2001,^[5] Census 2011,^[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,^[7]

Vital statistics

As of most recent statistics from 2023, the population of Boynitsa dropped further to 744 people. There were only 6 births recorded and 24 deaths. That means that the population dropped by 18 people, because of natural increase. In the period between 2000-2023 there were a total of 119 births recorded. The number of deaths in the same period was 1,694. That means that the population of Boynitsa declined by 1,575 people just because the fact more people are dying than that being born. Boynitsa is one of the smallest municipalities by population (only Treklyano Municipality has a smaller population).

	Population	Live births	Deaths	Natural growth	Birth rate (‰)	Death rate (‰)	Natural growth rate (‰)
2000	2,335	13	96	-83	5.6	41.1	-35.5
2001	2,186	12	90	-78	5.5	41.2	-35.7
2002	2,152	7	84	-77	3.3	39.0	-35.8
2003	2,139	7	67	-60	3.3	31.3	-28.0
2004	2,075	4	81	-77	1.9	39.0	-37.1
2005	1,947	3	117	-114	1.5	60.1	-58.6
2006	1,850	8	92	-84	4.3	49.7	-45.4
2007	1,913	4	72	-68	2.1	37.6	-35.5
2008	1,797	5	89	-84	2.8	49.5	-46.7
2009	1,717	5	74	-69	2.9	43.1	-40.2
2010	1,659	7	70	-63	4.2	43.2	-38.0
2011	1,293	6	72	-66	4.6	55.7	-51.0
2012	1,218	3	73	-70	2.5	59.9	-57.4
2013	1,169	7	65	-58	6.0	55.6	-49.6
2014	1,126	3	60	-57	2.7	53.3	-50.6
2015	1,143	0	52	-52	0.0	45.5	-45.5
2016	1,077	4	56	-52	3.7	52.0	-48.3
2017	996	4	46	-42	4.0	46.2	-42.2
2018	936	2	55	-53	2.1	58.8	-56.6
2019	869	4	45	-41	4.6	51.8	-47.2
2020	823	2	40	-38	2.4	48.6	-46.2
2021	780	2	54	-52	2.6	69.2	-66.6
2022	740	1	43	-42	1.4	58.1	-56.7
2023	744	6	24	-18	8.1	32.3	-24.2

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 Boynitsa Municipality ^[8]

Orthodox Christianity			77.7%
Catholicism			0.0%
Protestantism			0.6%
Islam			0.0%
No religion			5.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable			16.6%

References

^ ^a ^b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
^ (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

Info website (in English)

[divisions-1] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

[statistika-2] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

[villages_under_1000-3] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009

[Settlements_1000-5000-4] (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009

[divisions_census_2001-5] (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001

[pop-stat-divisions-6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“

[7] "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.

[8] "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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