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Bansko (Bulgarian: Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located in Blagoevgrad Oblast near the city of Razlog.Once mainly a stockbreeding and travelling merchant community, the town is now an international centre for winter and summer tourism.
Bansko Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Банско, romanized: Obshtina Bansko) is situated in southwestern Bulgaria and is one of the municipalities of Blagoevgrad Province. Settlements [ edit ]
It is the third largest in Bulgaria after Burgas and Sofia Provinces and comprises 5.8% of the country's territory. Blagoevgrad Province includes the mountains, or parts of, Rila (highest point of the Balkans — Musala summit, 2925 m), Pirin (highest point — Vihren summit, 2914 m), the Rhodopes , Slavyanka , Belasitsa , Vlahina , Maleshevo ...
Geographic limits of the map: N: 44.4° N; S: 41.1° N; W: 22.1° E; E: 28.9° E; Date: 05-08-2008: Source: own work, using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data; file:Bulgaria’s Planning Regions (2009).svg by Пакко; Author: NordNordWest: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Belene Municipality Within Bulgaria.png
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.
Map main cities in Bulgaria at Visitmybulgaria.com; Map of Bulgarian towns at BGMaps.com; Map of Bulgarian towns at the World Gazetteer website at archive.today (archived 2012-12-10) Maps of Bulgarian towns at Domino.bg Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine; Veliko Tarnovo of Bulgaria; Map of Bulgaria
Bulgaria has some of the largest Natura 2000 areas in the European Union covering 33.8% of its territory. [96] The national policy for governing and management of the protected areas is implemented by the Ministry of Environment and Water. Bulgaria's biodiversity is conserved in three national parks, 11 nature parks [97] and 55 nature reserves.
The elevation varies from 950 meters (3,120 ft) to 2,914 meters (9,560 ft) at Vihren, Bulgaria's second highest summit and the Balkans' third. The park is situated in Blagoevgrad Province, the nation's southwesternmost region, on the territory of seven municipalities: Bansko, Gotse Delchev, Kresna, Razlog, Sandanski, Simitli, and Strumyani ...