Maritsa Municipality

Maritsa Municipality Община Марица
Municipality
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Plovdiv Province
Population
• Total	30,676

Maritsa Municipality (obshtina) is located in the Plovdiv Province, southern Bulgaria on the northern bank of the Maritsa River. It has 30,676 inhabitants and consists only of villages. The municipality has thriving industry with around €400 000 000 invested in the recent years. Its administrative center is Plovdiv but the city is not part of the municipality.

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 Maritsa Municipality Orthodox Christianity   84.4% Catholicism   0.7% Protestantism   1.7% Islam   2.3% No religion   2.9% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   8.0%

Villages in the Maritsa municipality

• Benkovski
• Dink
• Graf Ignatievo
• Kalekovets
• Kostievo
• Krislovo
• Manole
• Manolsko Konare
• Radinovo
• Rogosh
• Skutare
• Stroevo
• Trilistnik
• Trud
• Tsaratsovo
• Voivodinovo
• Voisil
• Yasno Pole
• Zhelyazno