Key facts
- Country
- Serbia
- Region
- Southern and Eastern Serbia
- District
- Pirot
- Town
- 17.15 km (6.62 sq mi)
- Municipality
- 483 km (186 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 450 m (1,480 ft)
- Town density
- 302.5/km (783.5/sq mi)
- Municipality density
- 16.7/km (43.1/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Area code
- +381(0)10
- Car plates
- PI
- Official languages
- Serbian together with Bulgarian
- Website
- www .dimitrovgrad .rs
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Encyclopedic overview
Dimitrovgrad (Serbian: Димитровград; Bulgarian: Димитровград), historically also known as Caribrod or Tsaribrod (Serbian: Цариброд; Bulgarian: Цариброд), is a town and municipality in the Pirot District of southeastern Serbia, in the upper Nišava valley near the border with Bulgaria. The municipality had 8,043 inhabitants at the 2022 census, of whom 5,188 lived in the urban settlement. It covers 483 km² and includes 43 settlements. Bulgarians were the largest ethnic group in the municipality at the 2022 census, followed by Serbs.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dimitrovgrad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.