General info

Entity:
Bulgaria
Capital:
Sofia
Population (2009-07-01):
7,204,687 (CIA)
Area:
110,910 sq.km.
Country code:
bg
Region:
Eastern Europe

Bulgaria

Administrative units

region
district
municipality		 capital area (sq.km.) population
2001-03-01
census		 population
2007-12-31
estimate
source: National Statistical Institute, Bulgaria.
note: alternative spellings have: h= kh, j = zh, y = i, s = z.
North Central region Ruse   1,003,228 931,950
Gabrovo district   2,023 144,849 133,218
Razgrad district     153,156 136,062
Ruse district     267,618 253,008
Silistra district     142,815 130,898
Veliko Tarnovo district     294,790 278,764
North-East region Varna   1,025,925 992,081
Dobrich district     217,012 203,138
Shumen district     205,198 196,559
Targovishte district     138,703 132,771
Varna district     465,012 459,613
North-West region Vidin   1,040,825 929,872
Lovech district     171,236 155,468
Montana district     183,353 161,161
Pleven district     329,064 297,928
Vidin district     131,215 112,604
Vratsa district     225,957 202,711
South Central region Plovdiv   1,619,653 1,545,785
Haskovo district     279,067 261,726
Kardzhali district     164,958 156,652
Pazardzhik district     313,059 294,086
Plovdiv district     721,905 705,121
Smolyan district     140,664 128,200
South-East region Burgas   1,175,781 1,125,982
Burgas district   7,753 426,028 420,095
Sliven district     220,273 207,786
Stara Zagora district     372,849 355,626
Yambol district     156,631 142,475
South-West region Sofija   2,104,769 2,114,568
Blagoevgrad district     343,370 329,309
Kyustendil district   3,084 163,388 149,187
Pernik district     150,318 138,773
Sofija (capital) district   1,345 1,173,811 1,240,788
Sofija district     273,882 256,511
total   110,971 7,970,181 7,640,238

Main cities

name population
1992-12-04
census		 population
2001-03-01
census		 population
2007-12-31
estimate
Sofiya 1,114,925 1,096,389 1,156,796
Plovdiv 341,058 340,638 345,249
Varna 308,432 314,539 313,983
Burgas 195,686 193,316 187,514
Ruse 170,038 162,128 156,761
Stara Zagora 150,518 143,989 140,303
Pleven 130,812 122,149 112,570
Sliven 106,212 100,695 94,717
Dobrich (Tolbukhin) 104,494 100,379 93,300
Shumen 93,390 89,054 86,735
Pernik 90,549 86,133 79,727
Yambol 91,497 82,924 78,302
Haskovo 80,700 80,870 77,801
Pazardzhik 82,578 79,476 75,568
Blagoevgrad 71,476 71,361 69,828
Vratsa 75,518 69,423 61,562
Gabrovo 76,522 67,350 61,897
Veliko Tarnovo 67,540 66,998 66,309
Vidin 62,691 57,614 50,547
Kazanlak 60,095 54,021 50,390
Asenovgrad 52,360 52,116 51,819
source: National Statistical Institute, Bulgaria.