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Bulgaria: 28 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 28 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-BGR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BGR / BGStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
28
first-level units
293
units at 2 levels
6,398,190
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Kaart

Bulgaria by province, state and territory

28 first-level units and 265 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 28 first-level units of Bulgaria
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Vlakke

Every administrative level of Bulgaria

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
28 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
ADM2
265 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
03Units

All 28 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Blagoevgrad BG-01 289,295 306,258 6,499 45 4.5% 0
Burgas BG-02 344,736 357,264 7,661 45 5.4% 42,044
Dobrich BG-08 154,357 166,400 4,742 33 2.4% 416
Gabrovo BG-07 94,384 94,866 2,087 45 1.5% 0
Haskovo BG-26 207,479 214,642 5,544 37 3.2% 0
Kardzhali BG-09 134,314 147,535 3,304 41 2.1% 0
Kyustendil BG-10 106,052 109,091 3,054 35 1.7% 0
Lovech BG-11 106,214 113,005 4,061 26 1.7% 0
Montana BG-12 109,809 115,910 3,622 30 1.7% 0
Pazardzhik BG-13 226,479 226,985 4,219 54 3.5% 0
Pernik BG-14 122,933 122,630 2,465 50 1.9% 0
Pleven BG-15 205,905 223,186 4,340 47 3.2% 0
Plovdiv BG-16 659,874 674,621 5,948 111 10.3% 0
Razgrad BG-17 90,774 104,341 2,402 38 1.4% 0
Ruse BG-18 166,174 163,021 2,821 59 2.6% 0
Shumen BG-27 144,390 158,935 3,548 41 2.3% 0
Silistra BG-19 89,657 85,364 2,859 31 1.4% 2,966
Sliven BG-20 165,866 174,131 3,503 47 2.6% 0
Smolyan BG-21 96,337 89,633 3,246 30 1.5% 0
Sofia BG-23 214,791 239,808 7,054 30 3.4% 0
Sofia City BG-22 1,356,830 1,403,882 1,339 1,013 21.2% 0
Stara Zagora BG-24 282,447 305,354 5,118 55 4.4% 0
Targovishte BG-25 98,667 91,480 2,732 36 1.5% 0
Varna BG-03 460,070 416,414 3,911 118 7.2% 17,656
Veliko Tarnovo BG-04 191,917 185,466 4,543 42 3% 0
Vidin BG-05 47,571 41,336 3,015 16 0.7% 0
Vratsa BG-06 127,336 149,335 3,623 35 2% 0
Yambol BG-28 103,532 110,554 3,505 30 1.6% 0
04Risiko

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Bulgaria publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGR ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2019
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGR ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2019
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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