Maritsa Municipality
Native nameОбщина Марица
ProvincePlovdiv Province
Unit prefMetric
Population total30,676

Maritsa Municipality (obshtina) is in 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 a thriving industrial base into which approximately €400,000,000 has been invested.[1] Its administrative centre is Plovdiv, despite the city's being outside its borders.

Religion

According to the Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition of the municipality is as follows:

Villages in the Maritsa municipality

Footnotes

  1. ^ Инвестициите в Община Марица достигнаха 400 млн. евро