Stolichna Municipality


The Stolichna Municipality is an obshtina in Sofia [City Province], Western Bulgaria.
It is named after its administrative centre, the city of Sofia, which is also the capital of Sofia City Province and Sofia Province and the capital of Bulgaria as well.
The municipality is located mainly in the Sofia Valley, and also in the feet and lower parts of the mountains of Stara planina and Vitosha, Plana, Lozen, Rila. As of 2025, the National Statistical [Institute |National Statistical Institute] projected that it was home to 1,232,905 inhabitants, of which 1,205,548 live in Sofia.

Settlements

Sofia Capital Municipality includes the following 38 places :
Balsha, Bankya, Bistritsa, Buhovo, Busmantsi, Chepintsi, [Sofia City Province|Chepintsi], Dobroslavtsi, Dolni Bogrov, Dolni Pasarel, German, Gorni Bogrov, Ivanyane, Zheleznitsa, Zhelyava, Zhiten, Kazichene, Klisura, Kokalyane, Krivina, Kubratovo, Katina, Lokorsko, Lozen, Malo Buchino, Marchaevo, Mirovyane, Mramor, Negovan, Novi Iskar, Pancharevo, Plana, Podgumer, Sofia, Svetovrachene, Vladaya, Voluyak, Voynegovtsi and Yana

Demography

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: