Chernoochene Municipality

Chernoochene Municipality Община Черноочене
Municipality
Chernoochene (Yeni Pazar) Location within Bulgaria
Coordinates: 41°46′N 25°21′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Kardzhali
Area
• Total	328.57 km2 (126.86 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2024)
• Total	7,647
• Density	23.27/km2 (60.28/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Website	chernoochene.com

Chernoochene municipality within Kardzhali Province Cernocene Municipality is a municipality located in the Kardzhali Province of Bulgaria. Its administrative centre is the town of Cernocene.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the municipality of Chernoochene has the highest relative share of ethnic Bulgarian Turks (97.1%), as well as Muslims (96.6%) of the total country. Chernoochene is a rural municipality, with all of its inhabitants living in one of the fifty villages. As of December 2018, the municipality of Chernoochene has 8,791 inhabitants.

Religion

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 Chernoochene Municipality

Orthodox Christianity			2.2%
Catholicism			0.1%
Protestantism			0.0%
Islam			96.6%
No religion			0.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable			1.0%

Most ethnic Turks are Muslim. Most ethnic Bulgarians are Orthodox Christians, living in the village of Pchelarovo. All other villages have a Turkish and Islamic majority.