page_title: Municipalities of Bulgaria
section_title: Varna Province
hierarchical_section_title: Municipalities of Bulgaria / Varna Province
caption_attribution_description: English: obstini-v-oblast-varna
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: Aksakovo Municipality (main town: Aksakovo)
  Avren Municipality (main village: Avren)
  Beloslav Municipality (main town: Beloslav)
  Byala Municipality (main town: Byala)
  Dalgopol Municipality (main town: Dalgopol)
  Devnya Municipality (main town: Devnya)
  Dolni Chiflik Municipality (main town: Dolni Chiflik)
  Provadiya Municipality (main town: Provadiya)
  Suvorovo Municipality (main town: Suvorovo)
  Valchi Dol Municipality (main town: Valchi Dol)
  Varna Municipality (main town: Varna)
  Vetrino Municipality (main village: Vetrino)
caption: The municipalities of Varna Province
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