Kaspichan

Kaspichan (Bulgarian: Каспичан) is a town in central northeastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province. It is located in the eastern Danubian Plain, some 70 km from the major Black Sea port Varna and around 120 km from the key Danube ports of Rousse and Silistra. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 3,260 inhabitants. Kaspichan is an important railway and highway junction linking Varna and Sofia, both through a railway line and the Hemus motorway. Kaspichan is the administrative centre of Kaspichan municipality (part of Shumen Province), which includes the following nine places with a total population of 9,822 (as of 2005): Kaspichan Point on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Kaspichan.