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Bulgaria is a country of long east to west bands: the Danube plain along the northern border, the Balkan range across the middle, the Thracian plain below it and the Rhodope mountains on the Greek frontier. Its provinces (oblasti) are named for their principal town, which makes the map a list of towns before it is a list of regions, and this page is the full list.
The 28 provinces, which are the tier between the state and the municipality. Each takes the name of its administrative centre, with two exceptions that catch people out: Sofia City is the capital on its own, and Sofia Province is the ring around it, with its centre in the capital but outside its borders. Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Plovdiv and Varna are the large ones; Gabrovo and Sofia City are the smallest.
Names are written in English as a Bulgarian map has them. The start dialog can switch every name to Cyrillic, which is what a road sign in Bulgaria says.
The groups are the six planning regions, the NUTS 2 statistical regions, and the one that surprises is the Southeast: Stara Zagora sits there with the Black Sea provinces of Burgas, Sliven and Yambol, not with Plovdiv, which anchors the South Central. Municipalities for the same map are in Bulgaria Municipalities, grouped the same way.
Sofia City is a province of one municipality, the capital, and Sofia Province wraps all of it. Playing the two apart is the first thing the map teaches.
Burgas is the largest province, a long stretch of Black Sea coast that continues to the Turkish border, and the one most of the beach resorts are in.
Stara Zagora lies in the middle of the country, and a player expects it with Plovdiv. It is in the Southeast planning region with Burgas, Sliven and Yambol.
28, counting Sofia City, the capital, as a province of its own. Sofia Province is a separate province around it.
Sofia City is the capital and a province on its own. Sofia Province surrounds it and is administered from the capital, but the capital is not part of it.
Six statistical regions, each made up of between four and five provinces. They are what Bulgaria reports regional figures and funding under, and the groups of this quiz.
The tier below this one is Bulgaria Municipalities. For another country at this level, see Belgium Provinces.
