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Vratsa Province is a Bulgarian province located in the northwestern part of the country, between Danube river in the north and Stara Planina mountain in the south. It is named after its main town - Vratsa. As of December 2009, the province has a population of 196,829 inhabitants, on territory of 3,619.7 km².MunicipalitiesThe Vratsa Province contains ten municipalities . The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village, and the population of each as of December 2009.PopulationThe Vratsa province had a population of 243,036 according to a 2001 census, of which were male and were female. As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 196,829 of which are inhabitants aged over 60 years.The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:Ethnic groupsTotal population : 186 848Ethnic groups : Identified themselves: 163 035 persons: Bulgarians: 151 183 Roma: 10 082 Others and indefinable: 1 770 A further 23 000 persons in Vratsa Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.