Novi Pazar Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Нови пазар) is a municipality (obshtina) in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located between Ludogorie and Provadia Plateau, not far from South Dobrudzha geographical region.

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Novi Pazar.

The municipality embraces a territory of 318 km2 (123 sq mi) with a population of 18,476 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

[1] The southernmost part of the area is crossed by the eastern operating section of Hemus motorway which is planned to connect the port of Varna with the country capital – Sofia.

Novi Pazar Municipality includes the following 16 places (towns are shown in bold): The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.