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

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.