The Stolichna Municipality () is an obshtina (''

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'') in

Sofia City Province Sofia City Province () is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. Its administrative center is the city of Sofia, the capital of the country. The province borders on Sofia Province and Pernik Province. It consists of only one municipalities of B ...

, Western

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. It is named after its administrative centre, the city of

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

, which is also the capital of

and

Sofia Province Sofia Province () is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. The province does not include Sofia in its territories, but Sofia remains the seat of its administration. The province borders on the provinces of Pernik, Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad, Paz ...

and the capital of Bulgaria as well. The municipality is located mainly in the

Sofia Valley The Sofia Valley (), or Sofia Field (), is situated in central western Bulgaria. It is the second of the succession of the eleven Sub-Balkan valleys in direction west–east and is the largest of them in area and population. It is named after th ...

, and also in the feet and lower parts of the mountains of

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and

Vitosha Vitosha ( ), the ancient ''Scomius'' or ''Scombrus'', is a mountain massif, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Vitosha is one of the symbols of Sofia and the closest site for hiking, alpinism and skiing. Convenient bus lines and ...

, Plana,

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. As of 2016, it was home to 1,500,927 inhabitants, of which 1,400,000 live in Sofia.

Settlements

Sofia Capital Municipality includes the following 38 places (cities are shown in bold): Balsha,

Bankya Bankya ( ) is a small town located on the outskirts of Sofia in western Bulgaria. It is administratively part of Greater Sofia. The district is famous for the mineral springs and baths that have been used for medicinal purposes for hundreds of ye ...

, Bistritsa, Buhovo,

Busmantsi Busmantsi (, also transcribed as Busmanci) is a village located in the Sofia City Province, western Bulgaria. It is part of the Iskar district in the municipality of Sofia, 8 km to the east of the City centre. As of 2006 it has 1,619 inhabitants. ...

, Chepintsi,

Dobroslavtsi Dobroslavtsi (, also transcribed as Dobroslavtzi or Dobroslavci) is a village (село) in western Bulgaria, located in the Sofia-city (''Sofiya-Grad'') Province. It is located from the city of Sofia.

, Dolni Bogrov, Dolni Pasarel,

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, Gorni Bogrov, Ivanyane, Jeleznitsa, Jelyava, Jiten,

Kazichene Kazichene ( ) is a large village in the Pancharevo district to the east of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. As of 2007, the village officially had 4,977 inhabitants. Because of its close proximity to the Sofia ring road and the nearby railroad, ove ...

Klisura Klisura, a South Slavic word of Greek origin (''kleisoúra''), for "pass", "gorge" or "canyon", may refer to: Albania *Këlcyrë, a Byzantine town, now in Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina *Klisura (Višegrad), a village in the municipality of Viš ...

Kokalyane Kokalyane () is a village in the municipality of Sofia, in the district of Pancharevo in Bulgaria. As of 2007 it has 1,859 residents. The village is situated at the foothills of the Vitosha mountain, 18 km from the center of Sofia. The ruins of th ...

, Krivina, Kubratovo, Katina, Lokorsko,

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Marchaevo Marchaevo, or Marčaevo, ( ) is a village located in the Vitosha municipality in the southern parts of the capital Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in t ...

, Mirovyane, Mramor, Negovan,

Novi Iskar Novi Iskar ( ) is a town in Western Bulgaria, located in Sofia City Province, which is a part of the Municipality of Sofia (the capital of Bulgaria). It is often regarded as a northern suburb of Bulgarian capital Sofia and lies in the northern par ...

Pancharevo Pancharevo (, , also transcribed as Pančarevo) is a district located on the outskirts of the Bulgarian capital Sofia and occupies the southeastern part of the Capital Municipality. Geographically, it lies partially in the Sofia Valley and the m ...

, Plana, Podgumer,

, Svetovrachene,

Vladaya Vladaya (, ) is a village on the Vitosha and Lyulin mountains in western Bulgaria at an altitude of about 1000 m. In the 2011 census in Vladaya were counted 4043 residents, which makes it the tenth largest village in Bulgaria. Remark: you should ...

, Voluyak, Voynegovtsi,

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Demography

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

References

{{Authority control Geography of Sofia City Province Municipalities of Bulgaria