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 term. The creation of new municipalities requires that they must be created in a territory with a population of at least 6,000 and created around a designated settlement. They must also be named after the settlement that serves as the territory's administrative center, among other criteria.
The council of a municipality is further permitted to create administrative subdivisions: mayoralties (kmetstvo), settlements (naseleno myasto), and wards or quarters (rayon). Mayoralties are overseen by elected mayors and typically comprises one or more villages or towns; they must contain a population of at least 250. Settlements are overseen by a manager appointed by the mayor of a municipality and thus have fewer responsibilities and less power than a mayoralty; they must have a population of fewer than 150. Wards are overseen by elected mayors and must include a population of at least 25,000; their creation is required in Bulgaria's three most populous municipalities.
Like municipalities themselves, mayoralties and wards are designated administrative-territorial units, as they have their own elected officials. Settlements, however, are simply designated territorial units since their leaders are appointed.
Blagoevgrad Province
Bansko Municipality (main town: Bansko) Belitsa Municipality (main town: Belitsa) Blagoevgrad Municipality (main town: Blagoevgrad) Garmen Municipality (main village: Garmen) Gotse Delchev Municipality (main town: Gotse Delchev) Hadzhidimovo Municipality (main town: Hadzhidimovo) Kresna Municipality (main town: Kresna) Petrich Municipality (main town: Petrich) Razlog Municipality (main town: Razlog) Sandanski Municipality (main town: Sandanski) Satovcha Municipality (main village: Satovcha) Simitli Municipality (main town: Simitli) Strumyani Municipality (main village: Strumyani) Yakoruda Municipality (main town: Yakoruda)
Burgas Province
Aytos Municipality (main town: Aytos) Burgas Municipality (main town: Burgas) Kameno Municipality (main town: Kameno) Karnobat Municipality (main town: Karnobat) Malko Tarnovo Municipality (main town: Malko Tarnovo) Nesebar Municipality (main town: Nesebar) Pomorie Municipality (main town: Pomorie) Primorsko Municipality (main town: Primorsko) Ruen Municipality (main village: Ruen) Sozopol Municipality (main town: Sozopol) Sredets Municipality (main town: Sredets) Sungurlare Municipality (main town: Sungurlare) Tsarevo Municipality (main town: Tsarevo)
Dobrich Province
Balchik Municipality (main town: Balchik) Dobrich Municipality (main town: Dobrich) Dobrichka Municipality (administrative town: Dobrich) General Toshevo Municipality (main town: General Toshevo) Kavarna Municipality (main town: Kavarna) Krushari Municipality (main village: Krushari) Shabla Municipality (main town: Shabla) Tervel Municipality (main town: Tervel)
Gabrovo Province
Dryanovo Municipality (main town: Dryanovo) Gabrovo Municipality (main town: Gabrovo) Sevlievo Municipality (main town: Sevlievo) Tryavna Municipality (main town: Tryavna)
Haskovo Province
Dimitrovgrad Municipality (main town: Dimitrovgrad) Harmanli Municipality (main town: Harmanli) Haskovo Municipality (main town: Haskovo) Ivaylovgrad Municipality (main town: Ivaylovgrad) Lyubimets Municipality (main town: Lyubimets) Madzharovo Municipality (main town: Madzharovo) Mineralni Bani Municipality (main village: Mineralni Bani) Simeonovgrad Municipality (main town: Simeonovgrad) Stambolovo Municipality (main village: Stambolovo) Svilengrad Municipality (main town: Svilengrad) Topolovgrad Municipality (main town: Topolovgrad)
Kardzhali Province
Ardino Municipality (main town: Ardino) Chernoochene Municipality (main village: Chernoochene) Dzhebel Municipality (main town: Dzhebel) Kardzhali Municipality (main town: Kardzhali) Kirkovo Municipality (main village: Kirkovo) Krumovgrad Municipality (main town: Krumovgrad) Momchilgrad Municipality (main town: Momchilgrad)
Kyustendil Province
Boboshevo Municipality (main town: Boboshevo) Bobov Dol Municipality (main town: Bobov Dol) Dupnitsa Municipality (main town: Dupnitsa) Kocherinovo Municipality (main town: Kocherinovo) Kyustendil Municipality (main town: Kyustendil) Nevestino Municipality (main village: Nevestino) Rila Municipality (main town: Rila) Sapareva Banya Municipality (main town: Sapareva Banya) Treklyano Municipality (main village: Treklyano)
Lovech Province
Apriltsi Municipality (main town: Apriltsi) Letnitsa Municipality (main town: Letnitsa) Lovech Municipality (main town: Lovech) Lukovit Municipality (main town: Lukovit) Teteven Municipality (main town: Teteven) Troyan Municipality (main town: Troyan) Ugarchin Municipality (main town: Ugarchin) Yablanitsa Municipality (main town: Yablanitsa)
Montana Province
Berkovitsa Municipality (main town: Berkovitsa) Boychinovtsi Municipality (main town: Boychinovtsi) Brusartsi Municipality (main town: Brusartsi) Chiprovtsi Municipality (main town: Chiprovtsi) Georgi Damyanovo Municipality (main village: Georgi Damyanovo) Lom Municipality (main town: Lom) Medkovets Municipality (main village: Medkovets) Montana Municipality (main town: Montana) Valchedram Municipality (main town: Valchedram) Varshets Municipality (main town: Varshets) Yakimovo Municipality (main village: Yakimovo)
Pazardzhik Province
Batak Municipality (main town: Batak) Belovo Municipality (main town: Belovo) Bratsigovo Municipality (main town: Bratsigovo) Lesichovo Municipality (main village: Lesichovo) Panagyurishte Municipality (main town: Panagyurishte) Pazardzhik Municipality (main town: Pazardzhik) Peshtera Municipality (main town: Peshtera) Rakitovo Municipality (main town: Rakitovo) Sarnitsa Municipality (main town: Sarnitsa) Septemvri Municipality (main town: Septemvri) Strelcha Municipality (main town: Strelcha) Velingrad Municipality (main town: Velingrad)
Pernik Province
Breznik Municipality (main town: Breznik) Kovachevtsi Municipality (main village: Kovachevtsi) Pernik Municipality (main town: Pernik) Radomir Municipality (main town: Radomir) Tran Municipality (main town: Tran) Zemen Municipality (main town: Zemen)
Pleven Province
Belene Municipality (main town: Belene) Cherven Bryag Municipality (main town: Cherven Bryag) Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality (main town: Dolna Mitropoliya) Dolni Dabnik Municipality (main town: Dolni Dabnik) Gulyantsi Municipality (main town: Gulyantsi) Iskar Municipality (main town: Iskar) Knezha Municipality (main town: Knezha) Levski Municipality (main town: Levski) Nikopol Municipality (main town: Nikopol) Pleven Municipality (main town: Pleven) Pordim Municipality (main town: Pordim)
Plovdiv Province
Asenovgrad Municipality (main town: Asenovgrad) Brezovo Municipality (main town: Brezovo) Hisarya Municipality (main town: Hisarya) Kaloyanovo Municipality (main village: Kaloyanovo) Karlovo Municipality (main town: Karlovo) Krichim Municipality (main town: Krichim) Kuklen Municipality (main town: Kuklen) Laki Municipality (main town: Laki) Maritsa Municipality (administrative city: Plovdiv) Parvomay Municipality (main town: Parvomay) Perushtitsa Municipality (main town: Perushtitsa) Plovdiv Municipality (main town: Plovdiv) Rakovski Municipality (main town: Rakovski) Rodopi Municipality (administrative town: Plovdiv) Sadovo Municipality (main town: Sadovo) Saedinenie Municipality (main town: Saedinenie) Sopot Municipality (main town: Sopot) Stamboliyski Municipality (main town: Stamboliyski)
Razgrad Province
Isperih Municipality (main town: Isperih) Kubrat Municipality (main town: Kubrat) Loznitsa Municipality (main town: Loznitsa) Razgrad Municipality (main town: Razgrad) Samuil Municipality (main village: Samuil) Tsar Kaloyan Municipality (main town: Tsar Kaloyan) Zavet Municipality (main town: Zavet)
Ruse Province
Borovo Municipality (main town: Borovo) Byala Municipality (main town: Byala) Dve Mogili Municipality (main town: Dve Mogili) Ivanovo Municipality (main village: Ivanovo) Ruse Municipality (main town: Ruse) Slivo Pole Municipality (main town: Slivo Pole) Tsenovo Municipality (main village: Tsenovo) Vetovo Municipality (main town: Vetovo)
Shumen Province
Hitrino Municipality (main village: Hitrino) Kaolinovo Municipality (main town: Kaolinovo) Kaspichan Municipality (main town: Kaspichan) Nikola Kozlevo Municipality (main village: Nikola Kozlevo) Novi Pazar Municipality (main town: Novi Pazar) Shumen Municipality (main town: Shumen) Smyadovo Municipality (main town: Smyadovo) Varbitsa Municipality (main town: Varbitsa) Veliki Preslav Municipality (main town: Veliki Preslav) Venets Municipality (main village: Venets)
Silistra Province
Alfatar Municipality (main town: Alfatar) Dulovo Municipality (main town: Dulovo) Glavinitsa Municipality (main town: Glavinitsa) Kaynardzha Municipality (main village: Kaynardzha) Silistra Municipality (main town: Silistra) Sitovo Municipality (main village: Sitovo) Tutrakan Municipality (main town: Tutrakan)
Sliven Province
Kotel Municipality (main town: Kotel) Nova Zagora Municipality (main town: Nova Zagora) Sliven Municipality (main town: Sliven) Tvarditsa Municipality (main town: Tvarditsa)
Smolyan Province
Banite Municipality (main village: Banite) Borino Municipality (main village: Borino) Chepelare Municipality (main town: Chepelare) Devin Municipality (main town: Devin) Dospat Municipality (main town: Dospat) Madan Municipality (main town: Madan) Nedelino Municipality (main town: Nedelino) Rudozem Municipality (main town: Rudozem) Smolyan Municipality (main town: Smolyan) Zlatograd Municipality (main town: Zlatograd)
Sofia City Province
Sofia Municipality (main town: Sofia)
Sofia Province
Anton Municipality (main village: Anton) Botevgrad Municipality (main town: Botevgrad) Bozhurishte Municipality (main town: Bozhurishte) Chavdar Municipality (main village: Chavdar) Chelopech Municipality (main village: Chelopech) Dolna Banya Municipality (main town: Dolna Banya) Dragoman Municipality (main town: Dragoman) Elin Pelin Municipality (main town: Elin Pelin) Etropole Municipality (main town: Etropole) Godech Municipality (main town: Godech) Gorna Malina Municipality (main village: Gorna Malina) Ihtiman Municipality (main town: Ihtiman) Koprivshtitsa Municipality (main town: Koprivshtitsa) Kostenets Municipality (main town: Kostenets) Kostinbrod Municipality (main town: Kostinbrod) Mirkovo Municipality (main village: Mirkovo) Pirdop Municipality (main town: Pirdop) Pravets Municipality (main town: Pravets) Samokov Municipality (main town: Samokov) Slivnitsa Municipality (main town: Slivnitsa) Svoge Municipality (main town: Svoge) Zlatitsa Municipality (main town: Zlatitsa)
Stara Zagora Province
Bratya Daskalovi Municipality (main village: Bratya Daskalovi) Chirpan Municipality (main town: Chirpan) Galabovo Municipality (main town: Galabovo) Gurkovo Municipality (main town: Gurkovo) Kazanlak Municipality (main town: Kazanlak) Maglizh Municipality (main town: Maglizh) Nikolaevo Municipality (main town: Nikolaevo) Opan Municipality (main village: Opan) Pavel Banya Municipality (main town: Pavel Banya) Radnevo Municipality (main town: Radnevo) Stara Zagora Municipality (main town: Stara Zagora)
Targovishte Province Antonovo Municipality (main town: Antonovo) Omurtag Municipality (main town: Omurtag) Opaka Municipality (main town: Opaka) Popovo Municipality (main town: Popovo) Targovishte Municipality (main town: Targovishte)
Varna Province