A protest is planned for today - April 12th due to the tragedy in which a truck swept away a car and killed 12-year-old Siyana on the Pleven-Lukovit road traffic will be redirected via a bypass route Drivers will pass through the road junction “Dolni Dabnik Bypass“ on road II-13 from where they will continue on road III-306 Knezha - Cherven Bryag – Lukovit and at Lukovit they will return back to the I-3 Pleven - Botevgrad road The traffic will be regulated by teams of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Drivers can also use the II-35 Pleven - Lovech road as an alternative route Travelers can deviate from the I-3 Byala - Botevgrad road at the “Grivitsa“ junction and continue along the Pleven - Lovech road until it joins the I-4 Sofia - Varna road The “Road Infrastructure“ Agency appeals to drivers to drive carefully and not to undertake risky overtaking that endangers the safety of all other travelers All citizens and transport companies can receive information about the current traffic situation from the RIA website - www.api.bg as well as at any time of the day by calling 0700 130 20 at RIA More news from Bulgaria A total of 46 out of all 257 cities in the country increased their population last year and only five of them are regional centers This shows a comparison of the data of the current demographic statistics of the National Statistical Institute for population by cities and sex as of December 31 The regional centers that are increasing their population are Varna There are 11 cities with a population of less than 1,000 people in the group of the smallest Bulgarian city Madjarovo (475 women) and Pliska (775 women).< /p> The largest population increase is in Sofia The data show that the largest increase in residents was registered in the three largest cities in terms of population in the country The population of the capital increased by 6,550 people and now reaches 1,196,806 the most “jump“ the population of Plovdiv The inhabitants of the city under the hills increased by 3,661 people and are now 325,485 and in Varna the population grew by 3,514 people and became 314,607 With a four-digit number of inhabitants last year Nessebar and Sveti Vlas also increased their population respectively by 2,734 and 1,283 inhabitants The population of Pomorie grew by 549 people in 2023 the inhabitants increased by more than 400 the population increased by more than 200 people the number of permanent residents “jumps” with more than 100 people Momchilgrad (with 160 people) and Chernomorets (with 146 people) The population of 23 of the cities in the country increased by a double-digit number of inhabitants These are Balchik – with 88 inhabitants Aheloy and Obzor – with 51 women each Boboshevo and Melnik – with 29 women each Dolna Banya and Sadovo – with 24 women each Letnitsa and Ugarchin – with 18 women each In only seven of the cities did the population increase by single digits The residents of Bankya and Vetovo increased by nine people each Half of the towns in the Burgas region are "crowded" residents Cities in which population growth is reported in 2023 are located in 19 of the 28 regions last year there was no area in which all cities increased their population Half of the 20 cities in the Burgas region had a growing population last year Jebel and Momchilgrad have also increased their population there are three cities each with an increasing population In nine districts are located two of the cities with increasing population These are in Blagoevgradsko – Bansko and Melnik in Varna – Byala and the regional center in Veliko Tarnovo – the regional town and Zlataritsa in Kyustendilsko – Boboshevo and Sapareva Banya in Plovdiv – the regional center and Sadovo in Rusensko – Vetovo and Glodjevo and in Sofia-city – Bankya and the capital The rest of the cities are located in the regions of Dobrich – Balchik Six regional centers lose more than 1,000 inhabitants in 2023 six decreased by more than 1,000 people last year The population of Dobrich is decreasing the most – 1536 people Pleven lost 1179 people from its population The inhabitants of Montana are less with 1165 The other two centers in Northwestern Bulgaria – Vratsa and Vidin lost 1163 and 1055 people respectively from their population Of the regional towns with more than 800 people the population of Yambol is decreasing – by 886 the inhabitants of Haskovo decrease – with 788 Sliven – with 735 and Pernik – with 730 In four regional centers the population decreased by more than 500 people the population decreased by more than 400 people The town in Western Bulgaria has become smaller by 475 people The decrease of the population in Stara Zagora and Smolyan is by more than 300 people and in the first city the decrease is by 375 inhabitants Razgrad and Targovishte have fewer residents by over 200 people The last two regional centers with a decrease in population are Blagoevgrad and Burgas Kazanlak and Dimitrovgrad are the largest non-regional cities in the country The report indicates that at the end of last year all the cities in the ten largest non-regional settlements lost different numbers of their population Kazanlak and Dimitrovgrad are in the top 3 in terms of population among these cities The ranking of the largest non-regional cities continues with Dupnitsa (26,527 population) Velingrad (20,015 women) and Karlovo (19,016 women) Dimitrovgrad was at the head of the negative ranking for the largest decrease in population among non-regional cities It has lost 567 people from its inhabitants Four other non-regional cities decreased by more than 300 people in the past year the population of another six cities is decreasing The population of Troyan decreased by 273 people and Popovo and Sevlievo – according to 202 The data show that White Church and Straldzha have decreased with the least number of inhabitants in the past year – with 9 inhabitants each Suhindol and Harmanli – with 8 women each Pliska and Sarnitsa – with 3 women each Devnya and Kaolinovo – with 2 women each and with one person each – Bolyarovo and Brusartsi In 20 Bulgarian cities there are more men than women 20 of the Bulgarian cities had more men than women there are only two cities in which an equal number of men and women live These are Beloslav (3334 men and women each) and Pliska (386 men and women each)