Belene Municipality is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, northern Bulgaria. It is located along the south bank of Danube river, by the border with Romania. The administrative centre of the area is the homonymous town of Belene. The municipality has a territory of 285 km2 with a population, as of December 2009, of 10,908 inhabitants.

Settlements

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

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: Most inhabitants are Christians.