Sarnitsa Municipality ( Bulgarian: Община Сърница) is one of the municipalities located in Pazardzhik Province. Its administrative centre is

Sarnitsa Sarnitsa (also transcribed Surnica, bg, Сърница ) is a small town in the Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria. it has 3,511 inhabitants. Formerly a village, it gained its town status in September 2003 and since January 2015 has formed ...

. The municipality was established on 1 January 2015.

Geography

The municipality is located in the southern portion of the province. The total area is 198.59 km² (76.68 sq mi). It occupies an elongated area that is 34 km long from northwest to southeast and 6 to 8 km in width. It borders Velingrad Municipality in the north and

Batak Municipality Batak Municipality ( bg, Община Батак) is a municipality in the Pazardzhik Province of Bulgaria. Demography At the 2011 census, the population of Batak was 6,144. Most of the inhabitants (53.46%) were Bulgarians, and there were signif ...

in the east. The Dospat Municipality of

Smolyan Province Smolyan Province ( bg, Област Смолян, ''Oblast Smolyan''; former name Smolyan okrug) is a province in Southern-central Bulgaria, located in the Rhodope Mountains, neighbouring Greece to the south. It is named after its administrative ...

is to the south-east, while Garmen and Satovcha municipalities of

Blagoevgrad Province Blagoevgrad Province ( bg, област Благоевград, ''oblast Blagoevgrad'' or Благоевградска област, ''Blagoevgradska oblast''), also known as Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia ( bg, Пиринска Маке� ...

adjoin the region in the south-west.

Communities

There are only three communities with a permanent population:

, Pobit Kamak and

Medeni Polyani Medeni Polyani () is a village located in Sarnitsa Municipality, Southern Bulgaria. Geography The village is located in the Western Rhodopes, a mountainous area. The elevation is about 1430 meters. It is near the permanently populated areas ...

, with only Sarnitsa being a town. The population is around 4,617. The majority of the people in the municipality are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims.

References

{{Pazardzhik Province Municipalities in Pazardzhik Province