Belogradchik Municipality is a municipality in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the western parts of the so-called Fore-Balkan area. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Belogradchik. To the west and southwest, the municipality borders on Republic of Serbia.The area embraces a territory of 411 km² with a population of 7,045 inhabitants, as of December 2009.The municipality is best known with the Belogradchik Rocks, impressive rock formations located just south of the main town as well as the medieval Belogradchik Fortress situated in the same rocky area. Another place of interest is the Magura Cave, with its beautiful prehistoric cave paintings.SettlementsBelogradchik Municipality includes the following 18 places (towns are shown in bold):DemographyThe following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.