Haskovo Province

Haskovo Province (Bulgarian: Област Хасково - Oblast Haskovo, former name Haskovo okrug, Turkish: Hasköy) is a province in southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece and Turkey to the southeast, comprising parts of the Thracian valley along the river Maritsa.

The province has a territory of 5,533.3 km2 (2,136.4 sq mi)[1] that is divided into 11 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009[update], of 256,408 inhabitants.

[2][3][4] The Haskovo province (Област, oblast) contains 11 municipalities[5] (singular: община, obshtina - plural: Общини, obshtini).

The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village (towns are shown in bold), and the population of each as of December 2009[update].

[11] As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 256,408[3] of which 25.8% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.

Municipalities of Haskovo province