Kresna Municipality

Municipality in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Kresna Municipality
Община Кресна
Municipality
Location in Blagoevgrad province
Location on map of Bulgaria
CountryBulgaria
Province (Oblast)Blagoevgrad
Area
 • Total344.55 km2 (133.03 sq mi)
Population
 • Total5,441
 • Density16/km2 (41/sq mi)

Kresna Municipality is a municipality in Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria. The administrative center is the town of Kresna.

Towns and villages

The following towns and villages are located in Kresna Municipality:

  • Kresna (Кресна)
  • Dolna Gradeshnitsa (Долна Градешница)
  • Ezerets (Езерец)
  • Gorna Breznitsa (Горна Брезница)
  • Oshtava (Ощава)
  • Slivnitsa (Сливница)
  • Stara Kresna (Стара Кресна)
  • Vlahi (Влахи)

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 Kresna Municipality [1]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 97.0%
Catholicism
 
 0.0%
Protestantism
 
 0.2%
Islam
 
 0.1%
No religion
 
 0.7%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 2.0%

See also

  • 1904 Kresna earthquakes – Pair of earthquakes that devastated Kresna

References

  1. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

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