Lyaskovets Municipality

Lyaskovets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лясковец) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan.

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Lyaskovets.

The municipality embraces a territory of 117.54 km2 (45.38 sq mi) with a population of 13,677 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

[1] The main road E772 crosses the area centrally, connecting the province centre of Veliko Tarnovo with the city of Targovishte and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

Lyaskovets Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold): The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Lyaskovets Municipality within Veliko Tarnovo Province