Editing Burgas (section)

==Population==

During the first decade after the [[liberation of Bulgaria]], in the 1880s the population of Burgas numbered about 6,000 inhabitants.<ref name="BAN">{{cite web |url=http://www.geography.iit.bas.bg/2009/1-09/13-17.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-02-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706142758/http://www.geography.iit.bas.bg/2009/1-09/13-17.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-06 }}</ref> Since then it started growing decade by decade, mostly because of the migrants from the rural areas and the surrounding smaller towns, reaching its peak in the period 1988–1991 exceeding 200,000.<ref name="pop1992">{{in lang|bg}} [http://statlib.nsi.bg:8181/isisbgstat/ssp/lister.asp?content=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1992_1994/DN_21_2_1992_1994_P*.pdf&from=1&to=282&index=&cont=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1992_1994/DN_21_2_1992_1994_content.pdf&type=%F1%F2%F0%E0%ED%E8%F6%E8 National Statistical Institute - Towns population 1956-1992]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
{{historical populations|1887|5749|1900|11738|1910|14897|1920|21170|1934|36230|1946|44449|1956|72526|1965|106115|1975|144482|1985|182549|1992|195686|2001|192390|2011|200271|2021|189741|align=right|cols=1|source=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geography.iit.bas.bg/2009/1-09/13-17.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-02-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706142758/http://www.geography.iit.bas.bg/2009/1-09/13-17.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cities of Bulgaria|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/bulgaria-cities.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=POPULATION BY STATISTICAL REGIONS, DISTRICS, MUNICIPALITIES, SETTLEMENTS, SEX AND AGE (2021 Census)|url=https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/reports/query.jsf?x_2=1962|publisher=[[National Statistical Institute (Bulgaria)|National Statistical Institute]]}}</ref>}}
===Ethnic linguistic and religious composition===
According to the latest 2011 census data, the individuals declared their ethnic identity were distributed as follows:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nsi.bg/ORPDOCS/Census2011_1.pop_by_age.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908134107/http://www.nsi.bg/ORPDOCS/Census2011_1.pop_by_age.xls|url-status=dead|title=Archived copy|archive-date=8 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nsi.bg/ORPDOCS/Census2011_4.pop_by_ethnos.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422120657/http://www.nsi.bg/ORPDOCS/Census2011_4.pop_by_ethnos.xls|url-status=dead|title=Census 2011. Population by ethnicity|archive-date=22 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Bulgarians]]: 172,898 (95.2%)
*[[Turks in Bulgaria|Turks]]: 3,200 (1.2%)
*[[Roma in Bulgaria|Roma]]: 3,122 (0.9%)
*Others: 1,330 (0.7%)
*Indefinable: 666 (0.4%)
*Undeclared: 19,155 (1.6%)
Total: 211,033