Kapitan Andreevo ( ) is a village near the

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Svilengrad Svilengrad (; ; ) is a town in Haskovo Province, south-central Bulgaria, situated at the tripoint of Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svilengrad Municipality. Geography Svilengrad is close to the ro ...

municipality, Haskovo Province, southern

. As of 2005 it has 948 inhabitants and the mayor is Dimitar Shiderov. Due to the proximity with

, there is a major border checkpoint built there, with the Turkish side of the checkpoint being called Kapıkule. The busy Bulgaria–Turkey border crossing at Kapitan Andreevo is an important point of entrance to the

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. Kapitan Andreevo is located at , 30 metres above sea level. The checkpoint, one of the busiest in the

, has been notorious as an entry point for drugs into the EU, and has long been reported to be run by

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. It is part of a wider Bulgarian problem of border corruption, which has hindered Bulgaria's accession into the

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Villages in Haskovo Province Bulgaria–Turkey border crossings {{Haskovo-geo-stub