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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 ...
After 1880 Kingdom of Bulgaria were separated to 21 Okrazhiya (in English: regimental). During the years to 1885 Eastern Rumelia , where were living Bulgarians (around 92%) administrative separated to 6 departments.
The northern border with Romania follows the river Danube until the city of Silistra. The land area of Bulgaria is 110,994 [1] square kilometres (42,855 sq mi) (111,002 [1] square kilometres (42,858 sq mi)), slightly larger than that of Cuba, Iceland or the U.S. state of Tennessee. Considering its relatively compact territorial size and shape ...
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough.Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses councils of government and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]
Municipalities of Bulgaria Provinces of Bulgaria. The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities (община, obshtina).Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popular majority vote for a four-year term, and a municipal council which is elected using proportional representation for a four-year ...
The province has a territory of 6,449.5 km 2 (2,490.2 sq mi) and a population of 323,552 [1] (as of 2011).It is the third largest in Bulgaria after Burgas and Sofia Provinces and comprises 5.8% of the country's territory.
An oblast (/ ˈ ɒ b l æ s t / or / ˈ ɒ b l ɑː s t /) [a] [b] is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Historically, it was used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The term oblast is often translated into English as 'region' or 'province'.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,300 km 2), over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in North America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of ...