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Dimitrovgrad Municipality

Община Димитровград

Municipality

Dimitrovgrad is located in Bulgaria

Dimitrovgrad

Dimitrovgrad

Coordinates: 42°3′N 25°36′E / 42.050°N 25.600°E
CountryBulgaria
ProvinceHaskovo
MunicipalityDimitrovgrad
Area

• Total

567.6 km2 (219.2 sq mi)
Population

 (1-Feb-2011)

• Total

53,557
 • Density94/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Websitewww.dimitrovgrad.bg
Dimitrovgrad municipality within Haskovo Province

Dimitrovgrad Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Димитровград) is a municipality in Haskovo Province, Bulgaria. The administrative centre is Dimitrovgrad.

The municipality consists of two towns (Dimitrovgrad and Merichleri) and 25 villages:

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 Dimitrovgrad Municipality [1]
Orthodox Christianity 88.5%
Catholicism 0.4%
Protestantism 1.0%
Islam 1.2%
No religion 3.9%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable 5.0%