The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities (община, obshtina). Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popular majority vote for a four-year term, and a municipal council which is elected using proportional representation for a four-year term. The creation of new municipalities requires that they must be created in a territory with a population of at least 6,000 and created around a designated settlement. They must also be named after the settlement that serves as the territory's administrative center, among other criteria. The council of a municipality is further permitted to create administrative subdivisions: mayoralties (kmetstvo), settlements (naseleno myasto), and wards or quarters (rayon). Mayoralties are overseen by elected mayors and typically comprises one or more villages or towns; they must contain a population of at least 250. Settlements are overseen by a manager appointed by the mayor of a municipality and thus have fewer responsibilities and less power than a mayoralty; they must have a population of fewer than 150. Wards are overseen by elected mayors and must include a population of at least 25,000; their creation is required in Bulgaria's three most populous municipalities. Like municipalities themselves, mayoralties and wards are designated administrative-territorial units, as they have their own elected officials. Settlements, however, are simply designated territorial units since their leaders are appointed.

Blagoevgrad Province

Burgas Province

Dobrich Province

Gabrovo Province

Haskovo Province

Kardzhali Province

Kyustendil Province

Lovech Province

Montana Province

Pazardzhik Province

Pernik Province

Pleven Province

Plovdiv Province

Razgrad Province

Ruse Province

Shumen Province

Silistra Province

Sliven Province

Smolyan Province

Sofia City Province

Sofia Province

Stara Zagora Province

Targovishte Province

Varna Province

Veliko Tarnovo Province

Vidin Province

Vratsa Province

Yambol Province