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Yakoruda Municipality

Coordinates: 42°01′04″N 23°40′08″E / 42.0177°N 23.6688°E / 42.0177; 23.6688
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Yakoruda Municipality
Община Якоруда
Location in Blagoevgrad province
Location on map of Bulgaria
CountryBulgaria
Province (Oblast)Blagoevgrad
Area
 • Total339.28 km2 (131.00 sq mi)
Population
 • Total10,284
 • Density30/km2 (79/sq mi)

Yakoruda Municipality is a municipality in Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria.

Demographics

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Of all the people who answered the question on their religion, 77% declared Muslim. Most of those Muslims are the so-called Pomaks, or Bulgarian Muslims but they tend to declare themselves as Turkish people.

Religion

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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 Yakoruda Municipality [1]
Orthodox Christianity
18.1%
Catholicism
0.1%
Protestantism
0.2%
Islam
76.9%
No religion
0.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
4.3%

References

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