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🇧🇬 Bulgaria 28 administrative divisions

28 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 5,630 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1
BG · BGR · 100
Capital
Sofia
Continent
Europe
Currency
EUR, euro
Calling code
+359
Internet domain
.bg
Divisions
28
Cities and towns
5,630

Divisions

The 28 divisions of Bulgaria

28 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division ISO 3166-2 Cities and towns Population
Blagoevgrad BG-01 289 285,644
Burgas BG-02 275 388,919
Dobrich BG-08 225 143,858
Gabrovo BG-07 363 92,722
Haskovo BG-26 270 205,702
Kardzhali BG-09 470 152,028
Kyustendil BG-10 198 104,740
Lovech BG-11 122 109,446
Montana BG-12 139 110,970
Pazardzhik BG-13 122 221,176
Pernik BG-14 174 108,871
Pleven BG-15 131 212,890
Plovdiv BG-16 244 638,290
Razgrad BG-17 113 98,083
Ruse BG-18 102 184,251
Shumen BG-27 173 148,601
Silistra BG-19 128 92,365
Sliven BG-20 121 168,267
Smolyan BG-21 243 88,816
Sofia City BG-22 65 1,303,813
Sofia Oblast BG-23 291 222,946
Stara Zagora BG-24 215 286,722
Targovishte BG-25 216 93,633
Varna BG-03 196 440,532
Veliko Tarnovo BG-04 352 198,803
Vidin BG-05 152 69,465
Vratsa BG-06 125 144,502
Yambol BG-28 112 104,571

A further 4 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Bulgaria
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/BG.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/BG/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.