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6-481: Kirkovo Municipality is a municipality in Kardzhali Province , Bulgaria . The administrative centre is Kirkovo . According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Kardzhali Province Kardzhali Province ( Bulgarian : Област Кърджали , romanized :  Oblast Kărdžali )

12-619: Is a province of southern Bulgaria , neighbouring Greece with the Greek regional units of Xanthi , Rhodope , and Evros to the south and east. It is 3209.1 km in area. Its main city is Kardzhali . It is Bulgaria's southernmost province. The territory of Kardzhali province was acquired by Bulgaria during the First Balkan War in 1912. In 1913 the region was organized as the district (окръг, okrăg in Bulgarian) of Mestanli . This district

18-463: The following ethnic groups (with percentage of total population): In the 2001 census, 160,167 people of the population of 164,019 of Kardzhali Province identified one of the following as their mother tongue (with percentage of total population): According to the 2011 census, Muslims are 82,227 (70.14% of those who answered) and the Orthodox are 23,916 (20.4% of those who answered). The Muslims' figure

24-484: The names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic , the main town (in bold) or village, and the population as of 2009. The population data and figures are of December 15, 2004 Kardzhali Province had a population of 149,661 according to the provisional results of the 2011 census , of which 49.8% were male and 50.2% were female . Kardzhali is one of the three Bulgarian provinces where less than fifty percent of

30-426: The population is living in urban areas: only 41% lives in urban areas in 2016. Total population (2011 census): 152,808 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 130,781 persons: A further 22,000 persons in the province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census. In the 2001 census, 158,704 people of the population of 164,019 of Karzhali Province identified themselves as belonging to one of

36-529: Was part of Stara Zagora province from 1934 until 1949, then it was transferred to the newly formed Haskovo district. In 1959, Kardzhali became the center of a new district with similar borders to the current province. Between 1987 and 1999, the region was part of Haskovo Province , after which it was restored, now as a province and with slightly changed borders. The Kardzhali province (област, oblast ) contains seven municipalities (singular: община, obština ; plural: общини, obštini ). The following table shows

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