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Sofia-grad

Municipality of the Capital

The Stolichna Municipality is an obshtina in , Western . It is named after its administrative centre, the city of , which is also the capital of and and the capital of Bulgaria as well.
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  • Type: municipality of Bulgaria with 1,330,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Sofia”, “Sofia Capital Municipality”, “Stolichna”, “Stolichna municipality”, and “Stolichna Municipality”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and Vasil Levski National Stadium.

Church
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St. is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in , the capital of . Built in the Neo-Byzantine style, it serves as the cathedral church of the Patriarch of Bulgaria and it is one of the largest Christian church buildings by volume in the world.

Stadium
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, 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.

Library
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The is the national library of , situated in the capital city of . Founded on 4 April 1878, the library received the status of Bulgarian National Library three years later and the Bulgarian National Revival Archive was merged into it in 1924.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sofia and Largo.

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.

Locality
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The is an architectural ensemble of three Socialist Classicism buildings around Independence Square in central , the capital of . It was designed and built in the 1950s with the intention of becoming the city's new representative centre.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Municipality of the Capital

Latitude
42.6865° or 42° 41′ 11″ north
Longitude
23.3056° or 23° 18′ 20″ east
Population
1,330,000
Elevation
573 metres (1,880 feet)
Open location code
8GJ5M8P4+H6
Geo­Names ID
6458974
Wiki­data ID
Q4442915
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Municipality of the Capital” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սոֆիայի համայնք”
  • Belarusian: “абшчына Сталічна”
  • Belarusian: “Сталічна (абшчына)”
  • Belarusian: “Сталічна”
  • Belarusian: “Сталічная грамада”
  • Bulgarian: “Cтолична Oбщина”
  • Bulgarian: “Stolichna Obshtina”
  • Bulgarian: “Община София”
  • Bulgarian: “Община Столична”
  • Bulgarian: “Общинска администрация - Столична община”
  • Bulgarian: “Софийска община”
  • Bulgarian: “Столична община”
  • Bulgarian: “Столична”
  • Bulgarian: “Столичната община”
  • Catalan: “Ajuntament de la Capital”
  • Catalan: “Sofia Capital”
  • Cebuano: “Stolichna Obshtina”
  • Chinese: “索菲亞市鎮”
  • Chinese: “索非亚市镇”
  • Czech: “hlavní město Sofie”
  • Czech: “Obština Stolična”
  • Dutch: “Sofia-Hoofdstad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلدية العاصمه صوفيا”
  • Esperanto: “ĉefurba komunumo Sofio”
  • Esperanto: “Stoliĉna obŝtina”
  • French: “Municipalité de Sofia capitale”
  • French: “Sofia”
  • French: “Stolitchna obchtina”
  • Galician: “Stolichna obshtina”
  • German: “Hauptstadtgemeinde Sofia”
  • German: “Sofia”
  • German: “Stolitschna obschtina”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Σόφιας”
  • Hebrew: “הרשות המקומית סופיה”
  • Hungarian: “Szófia Főváros Önkormányzata”
  • Italian: “comune della capitale”
  • Italian: “comune di Sofia Capitale”
  • Italian: “Sofia Capitale”
  • Polish: “Gmina Stoliczna”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Stolicina, Sofia-capitala”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Stolicina”
  • Russian: “Община Столична”
  • Russian: “Столична (община)”
  • Russian: “Столична”
  • Slovak: “Sofia”
  • Slovenian: “Stolična obština”
  • Spanish: “Stolichna obshtina”
  • Swedish: “Stolitjna obsjtina”
  • Tajik: “Софияи Пойтахтӣ”
  • Turkish: “Sofya başkent belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Sofya başkent bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Столична громада”
  • Welsh: “Sofia Ddinesig”

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