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Sofia

First-level unit, Bulgaria: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-BGR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BGR / BGStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
214,791
people (GHSL 2025)
7,054 km²
area
3.4%
of Bulgaria
23
units inside

01Map

Inside Sofia

The 23 ADM2 units of Sofia.

FIG 1 · 23 units inside Sofia
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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.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

214,791

3.4% of Bulgaria.

People · WorldPop 2025

239,808

+12% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

7,054 km²

30 people per km².

குறியீடு

BG-23

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Sofia in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

38%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

23 units inside Sofia

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Anton – 1,398 1,606 85.84 16 0.7% 0
Botevgrad – 27,071 33,144 485.9 56 12.6% 0
Bozhurishte – 4,838 6,523 133.2 36 2.3% 0
Chavdar – 287 196 72.58 4 0.1% 0
Chelopech – 754 810 31.9 24 0.4% 0
Dolna Banya – 4,656 4,890 97.32 48 2.2% 0
Dragoman – 4,622 4,600 319.1 14 2.2% 0
Elin Pelin – 26,144 24,463 431.41 61 12.2% 0
Etropole – 9,850 11,534 367.49 27 4.6% 0
Godech – 4,588 5,141 402.12 11 2.1% 0
Gorna Malina – 6,071 5,894 306.99 20 2.8% 0
Ihtiman – 15,292 19,382 584.28 26 7.1% 0
Koprivshtitsa – 2,018 1,891 149.32 14 0.9% 0
Kostenets – 11,239 12,270 305.11 37 5.2% 0
Kostinbrod – 14,164 19,590 265.23 53 6.6% 0
Mirkovo – 2,122 2,412 213.02 10 1% 0
Pirdop – 7,171 8,164 166.85 43 3.3% 0
Pravets – 6,683 6,854 313.7 21 3.1% 0
Samokov – 33,584 35,778 1,124.54 30 15.6% 0
Slivnitsa – 7,314 8,342 195.85 37 3.4% 0
Svoge – 18,788 20,050 858.52 22 8.7% 0
Zlatitsa – 5,829 6,061 97.63 60 2.7% 0
Zlatitsa – 309 211 45.45 7 0.1% 0
05வெளிப்பாடு

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
759 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
1,401.2 H3 cells
Railways
1,064.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
159.3 H3 cells
06இடர்

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Sofia publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Bulgaria.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08மூலங்கள்

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.
நாடுகள்
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.