page_title: Municipalities of Bulgaria
section_title: Burgas Province
hierarchical_section_title: Municipalities of Bulgaria / Burgas Province
caption_attribution_description: Map of Burgas Province
context_page_description: The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities. 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 admininistrative subdivisions: mayoralties, settlements, and wards or quarters. 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.
context_section_description: Aytos Municipality (main town: Aytos)
  Burgas Municipality (main town: Burgas)
  Kameno Municipality (main town: Kameno)
  Karnobat Municipality (main town: Karnobat)
  Malko Tarnovo Municipality (main town: Malko Tarnovo)
  Nesebar Municipality (main town: Nesebar)
  Pomorie Municipality (main town: Pomorie)
  Primorsko Municipality (main town: Primorsko)
  Ruen Municipality (main village: Ruen)
  Sozopol Municipality (main town: Sozopol)
  Sredets Municipality (main town: Sredets)
  Sungurlare Municipality (main town: Sungurlare)
  Tsarevo Municipality (main town: Tsarevo)
caption: The municipalities of Burgas Province
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