oblast of Bulgaria
Also known as oblast', oblast (Bulgaria), region of Bulgaria
first-level administrative subdivisions of Bulgaria
Key facts
- Category
- Unitary state
- Location
- Republic of Bulgaria
- Found in
- Regions
- Populations
- 101,018 ( Vidin ) – 1,291,591 ( Sofia City )
- Areas
- 1,348.90 km (520.81 sq mi) ( Sofia City )– 7,748.07 km (2,991.55 sq mi) ( Burgas )
- Government
- Province government, National government
- Subdivisions
- Municipality
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- Commons category
- Provinces of Bulgaria
- quantity
- 28
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The provinces of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: области на България, romanized: oblasti na Bǎlgariya) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of the country. Since 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces (Bulgarian: области – oblasti; singular: област – oblast; also translated as "regions") which correspond approximately to the 28 districts (in Bulgarian: окръг – okrǎg, plural: окръзи – okrǎzi), that existed before 1987.
The provinces are further subdivided into 265 municipalities (singular: община – obshtina, plural: общини – obshtini). Sofia – the capital city of Bulgaria and the largest settlement in the country – is the administrative centre of both Sofia Province and Sofia City Province (Sofia-grad). The capital is included (together with three other cities plus 34 villages) in Sofia Capital Municipality (over 90% of whose population lives in Sofia), which is the sole municipality comprising Sofia City province.