Krichim Municipality
municipality in Plovdiv oblast, Bulgaria
Krichim Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Кричим) is a municipality in Plovdiv Province, central Bulgaria. Covering a territory of 54.9 km2, it is the 17th largest of the 18 municipalities in the province, encompassing 0.92% of its total area. It is the third smallest by area in the country, after Perushtitsa and Chelopech. It is also one of the two municipalities with disjunct territory, along with Zlatitsa, and among the nine that contains a single settlement. It borders the municipalities of Stamboliyski to the north, Perushtitsa to the northeast, Rodopi to the east, Devin to the south, as well as Bratsigovo and Pazardzhik to the west. Until 1998 Krichim was part of Rodopi Municipality.
Geography
The municipality has a flat topography to the north and mountainous to the south. Its northernmost reaches lie in the central part of the Pazardzhik–Plovdiv Field, which constitutes the western half of the Upper Thracian Plain, where the lowest point at 206 m is located. Also in the north is a small section of the easternmost slopes of the Besaparski Hills, a small northerly elevation of the Rhodope Mountains. Further south, covering most of the municipality, rise two of the main ridges of the Rhodopes, Ravnogor and Chernatitsa.
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