Strazhitsa Municipality ( ) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, north-central Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain but also covering parts of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre â the town of Strazhitsa.
The municipality has an area of and a population of 14,742 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.
Strazhitsa Municipality includes the following 22 places (towns are shown in bold):
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.