Hitrino Municipality

Hitrino Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Хитрино) is a municipality (obshtina) in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain.

It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Hitrino.

The municipality embraces a territory of 288 km2 (111 sq mi) with a population of 6,423 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

[1] Hitrino Municipality includes the following 23 places, all of them are villages: The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following: [8]

Hitrino Municipality within Shumen Province