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Sofia-grad

Sofia City Province is a province of western . Its administrative center is the city of , the capital of the country. It borders and . It consists of only one municipality – the Sofia Capital Municipality.
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  • Type: oblast of Bulgaria with 1,480,000 residents
  • Description: oblast of Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “BG411”, “Oblast Grad Sofiya”, “Oblast Sofiya-Grad”, “Sofia Capital oblast”, “Sofia Capital province”, “Sofia City”, “Sofia City Province”, “Sofia-Capital”, “Sofia-City province”, “Sofia-City Province”, “Sofia-grad Province”, and “Sofiyska Gradska Obshtina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sofia Airport and Vasil Levski National Stadium.

Aerodrome
Photo: Apostoloff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sofia Vasil Levski Airport is the main of , located 10 km east of the centre of the capital . In 2019 the airport surpassed 7 million passengers for the first time.

Stadium
Photo: JukoFF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, named after national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 43,230 seats and is located in the centre of , on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina.

Stadium
Photo: Wiöldcard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stadion Balgarska Armia is a stadium of the football club CSKA Sofia. It is situated in the Borisova gradina in the centre of . Until 2024 the stadium had four sectors and a total of 22,995 seats, of which 2,100 are covered; the pitch length was 106 meters and the width was 66 meters.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sofia and Busmantsi.

Photo: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital and largest city of , with about 2 million citizens. It is a dynamic European capital, distinguished by its unique combination of European and communist-style architecture as well as many beautiful Orthodox churches, including the grand Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the medieval frescos of Boyana Church.

Village
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is a village located in the Sofia City Province, western . It is part of the Iskar district in the municipality of Sofia, 8 km to the east of the City centre.

Village
is a large village in the district to the east of the capital of . As of 2007, the village officially had 4,977 inhabitants. is situated 6 km east of Sofia-grad.

Sofia-grad

Latitude
42.6667° or 42° 40′ north
Longitude
23.3833° or 23° 23′ east
Population
1,480,000
Elevation
566 metres (1,857 feet)
Open location code
8GJ5M98M+M8
Geo­Names ID
731061
Wiki­data ID
Q1585725
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Sofia-grad” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sofia kryeqytet”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة مدينة صوفيا”
  • Armenian: “Սոֆիա”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Sofía-Ciudá”
  • Basque: “Sofia-hiria probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “гарадская вобласць Сафія”
  • Bosnian: “Oblast Sofija-grad”
  • Bulgarian: “Oblast Sofia-Grad”
  • Bulgarian: “Okrŭg Grad Sofiya”
  • Bulgarian: “Sofia-Grad”
  • Bulgarian: “Област ‘София град’”
  • Bulgarian: “Област София град”
  • Bulgarian: “Област София-град”
  • Bulgarian: “Област София-Град”
  • Bulgarian: “Областна администрация - София”
  • Bulgarian: “София (столица)”
  • Bulgarian: “София Столица (област)”
  • Bulgarian: “София Столица”
  • Bulgarian: “София-град”
  • Bulgarian: “София-Град”
  • Bulgarian: “София”
  • Catalan: “província de Sofia-Ciutat”
  • Catalan: “Província de Sofia-Ciutat”
  • Cebuano: “Sofiya-Grad”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای شاری سۆفیا”
  • Chechen: “Софи (область)”
  • Chechen: “Софи”
  • Chinese: “Sofia-grad Chiu”
  • Chinese: “索菲亞市州”
  • Chuvash: “Софи хула облаçĕ”
  • Chuvash: “София хула облаçĕ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sofiya (şeer vilâyeti)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sofiya”
  • Croatian: “Oblast Sofija”
  • Czech: “Oblast Sofie”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Sofio-urbo”
  • Estonian: “Sofia linna piirkond”
  • Estonian: “Sofija-grad”
  • French: “Oblast de Sofia-ville”
  • French: “Sofia-ville”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Sofía-Cidade”
  • German: “Oblast Sofia-grad”
  • German: “Oblast Sofia-Stadt”
  • German: “Sofia-grad Province”
  • Greek: “Μητροπολιτική περιοχή Σόφιας”
  • Hindi: “सोफ़िया नगर प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Szófia főváros”
  • Irish: “Cúige Chathair Shóifia”
  • Italian: “distretto di Sofia città”
  • Japanese: “ソフィア市州”
  • Korean: “소피아시주”
  • Latvian: “Sofijas pilsētas apgabals”
  • Macedonian: “Софија-град”
  • Macedonian: “Софија”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sofia-grad Chiu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byprovinsen Sofia”
  • Ossetian: “Софияйы сахары облæст”
  • Persian: “استان صوفیه سیتی”
  • Polish: “Obwód miejski Sofia”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Sofia-capitala”
  • Romanian: “Sofia-capitala”
  • Russian: “Городская область София”
  • Russian: “София область”
  • Russian: “София”
  • Scots: “Sofia Ceety Province”
  • Serbian: “Област Софија-град”
  • Serbian: “Област Софија”
  • Sinhala: “සොෆියා නගර පළාත, බල්ගේරියාව”
  • Slovak: “Sofia”
  • Slovenian: “Oblast Sofija”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Sofia Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Sofía Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Sofia-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Sofía-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Oblast de Sofia Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Oblast de Sofía Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Óblast de Sofia Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Óblast de Sofía Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Oblast de Sofia-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Oblast de Sofía-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Óblast de Sofia-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Óblast de Sofía-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Sofia Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Sofía Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Sofia-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Sofía-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Sofia-Ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Sofía-Ciudad”
  • Swedish: “Sofia”
  • Swedish: “Sofija-grad”
  • Tajik: “вилояти София”
  • Tajik: “София”
  • Turkish: “Sofya şehri ili”
  • Ukrainian: “Міська область Софія”
  • Ukrainian: “Софія-град”
  • Urdu: “صوفیہ شہر صوبہ”
  • Volapük: “Sofia”
  • Yue Chinese: “索菲亞市州”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Iskar and Embassy of the Republic of Armenia to the Republic of Bulgaria.

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