The Montana province (Област, oblast) contains 11 municipalities (singular: община, obshtina - plural: Общини, obshtini).

The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and in Cyrillic, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population as of 2011.

[8] As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 155,899[2] of which 30.5% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.

[13] In the 2011 census, 136,175 people of the population of 148,098 of Montana Province identified one of the following as their religion: In the 2001 census, 172,358 people of the population of 182,258 of Montana Province identified one of the following as their religion:[14] The place names in bold have the status of town (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad).

Other localities have the status of village (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).