Sofia Province
Sofia Province is a province 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, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Lovech, Vratsa, Montana, and Sofia City, and borders with Serbia to the northwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: oblast of Bulgaria with 228,000 residents
- Description: oblast of Bulgaria
- Also known as: “BG412”, “Oblast Sofiya”, “Sofia”, “Sofia oblast”, “Sofia Oblast”, “Sofia province”, “Sofiyska Oblast”, and “Sofiyski Okrŭg”
- Neighbors: Pirin Macedonia
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum ‘House of Elin Pelin’.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bailovo and Makotsevo.
Bailovo
Village
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bailovo is a village in Western Bulgaria, 43 km east of Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the home village of the Bulgarian writer Elin Pelin, and ascetic Dobri Dobrev.
Golema Rakovitsa
Village
Photo: MrPanyGoff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Golema Rakovitsa is a village in western Bulgaria, part of Elin Pelin Municipality, Sofia Province. Golema Rakovitsa is situated 5 km south of Sofia Province.
Sofia Province
- Location: Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Sofia Province” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca Sofia”
- Albanian: “Sofia”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة صوفيا”
- Armenian: “Սոֆիայի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Սոֆիայի քաղաքային մարզ”
- Basque: “Sofia probintzia”
- Bavarian: “Oblast Sofia”
- Belarusian: “Сафійская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Сафійская вобласьць”
- Bengali: “সোফিয়া প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Oblast Sofija”
- Bulgarian: “Oblast Sofia”
- Bulgarian: “Област Софийска”
- Bulgarian: “Област София”
- Bulgarian: “Софийска област”
- Bulgarian: “Софийска”
- Bulgarian: “София (област)”
- Bulgarian: “София-област”
- Bulgarian: “София”
- Catalan: “Província de Sofia”
- Cebuano: “Sofiya”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای سۆفیا”
- Chechen: “Софин область”
- Chinese: “Sofia Chiu”
- Chinese: “索菲亚州”
- Chinese: “索菲亞州”
- Chinese: “索非亚州”
- Crimean Tatar: “Sofiya vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Sofijska oblast”
- Czech: “Sofijská oblast”
- Danish: “Sofia”
- Dutch: “Oblast Sofia”
- Dutch: “Sofia”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Sofio”
- Esperanto: “Sofia Provinco”
- Estonian: “Sofia oblast”
- Estonian: “Sofia piirkond”
- Finnish: “Sofian alue”
- French: “Oblast de Sofia”
- French: “Sofia”
- Georgian: “სოფია”
- Georgian: “სოფიის ოლქი”
- German: “BG-22”
- German: “Oblast Sofia”
- German: “Sofia Region”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Σόφιας”
- Greek: “Σόφια”
- Gujarati: “સોફિયા પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “מחוז סופיה”
- Hebrew: “סופיה”
- Hindi: “सोफिया प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Szófia megye”
- Indonesian: “Oblast Sofia”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sofia”
- Irish: “Cúige Sofia”
- Italian: “distretto di Sofia”
- Italian: “Distretto di Sofia”
- Italian: “Oblast di Sofia”
- Japanese: “ソフィア州”
- Kannada: “ಸೋಫಿಯಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “소피아 주”
- Korean: “소피아주”
- Korean: “소피야 주”
- Latvian: “Sofijas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Sofijos sritis”
- Lombard: “Distret de Sofia”
- Macedonian: “Софија”
- Macedonian: “Софиска област”
- Malay: “Sofia Province”
- Marathi: “सोफिया प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sofia Chiu”
- Mongolian: “Софи аймаг”
- Northern Frisian: “Sofia (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Sofia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sofia provins”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Sofia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sòfia”
- Ossetian: “Софияйы облæст”
- Persian: “استان صوفیه”
- Polish: “Obwód Sofia”
- Polish: “Obwód sofijski”
- Portuguese: “Sofia”
- Portuguese: “Sófia”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Sofia, Bulgaria”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Sofia”
- Romanian: “Sofia”
- Russian: “Софийская область”
- Rusyn: “Софійска область”
- Scots: “Sofia Province”
- Serbian: “Sofijska oblast”
- Serbian: “Софийска област”
- Serbian: “Софијска област”
- Sinhala: “සොෆියා පළාත, බල්ගේරියාව”
- Sinhala: “සොෆියා පළාත”
- Slovak: “Sofia”
- Slovak: “Sofijská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “Sofijska oblast”
- South Azerbaijani: “صوفیه اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Sofia”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Sofía”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Sofia”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Sofía”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Sofia”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Sofía”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Sofia”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Sofía”
- Spanish: “Sofia”
- Spanish: “Sofía”
- Swedish: “Sofia”
- Swedish: “Sofijska oblast”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Sofija”
- Tajik: “Вилояти София”
- Tamil: “சோபியா மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “సోపియా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “సోపియా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโซเฟีย”
- Turkish: “Sofya ili”
- Turkish: “Sofya”
- Ukrainian: “Софійська область”
- Urdu: “صوفیہ صوبہ”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Sofia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sofia”
- Welsh: “Talaith Sofia”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ صوفیہ”
- Wu Chinese: “索菲亚州”
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