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7-458: Pernik Province is a province in western Bulgaria , neighbouring Serbia . Its main city is Pernik , and other municipalities are Breznik , Kovachevtsi , Radomir , Tran , and Zemen . Pernik province had a population of 133,750 according to the 2011 census , of which 48.9% were male and 51.1% were female . Total population (2011 census): 133 530 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 125 422 persons: Ethnic groups in
14-430: A list of the constituting municipalities. In Bulgaria they are usually called "[Adjective] Oblast"; occasionally they are referred to as "Oblast [Noun]" and rarely as "oblast with administrative centre [Noun]". The Bulgarian term "област" ( oblast ) is preferably translated into English as "province", in order to avoid disambiguation and distinguish from the former unit called "окръг" ( okrag , translated as "district") and
21-447: Is currently not working at full capacity. Provinces of Bulgaria The provinces of Bulgaria ( Bulgarian : области на България , romanized : oblasti na Bǎlgariya ) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of the country. Since 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces (Bulgarian: области – oblasti; singular: област – oblast ; also translated as "regions") which correspond approximately to
28-598: 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 municipality comprising Sofia City province. The provinces do not have official names – legally (in the President's decree on their constitution ), they are not named but only described as "oblast with administrative centre [Noun]" – together with
35-492: The 28 districts (in Bulgarian: окръг – okrǎg , plural: окръзи – okrǎzi ), that existed before 1987. The provinces are further subdivided into 265 municipalities (singular: община – obshtina , plural: общини – obshtini ). 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
42-559: The province according to 2001 census: Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census: Industry is of vital importance for the economy of the province. Pernik is the major manufacturing centre, one of the largest in the country with the "Stomana" steel complex, heavy machinery (mining and industrial equipment), building materials, and textiles being the most important. There is an enormous plant for heavy machinery in Radomir which produces excavators and industrial equipment, but
49-517: The term "регион" (always translated as "region"). At any rate, "district" and "region" are sometimes still used to name these contemporary 28 units. In 1987, the then-existing 28 districts ( okrags ) were transformed into 9 large units (in Bulgarian called oblasts – provinces ), which survived until 1999. The 9 large provinces are listed below, along with the pre-1987 districts (post-1999 small provinces) comprising them. On 1 January 1999,
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