Besides the administrative centre, other municipalities are Alfatar, Dulovo, Glavinitsa, Kaynardzha, Sitovo, and Tutrakan.

The Silistra Province contains seven municipalities (Bulgarian: община, romanized: obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini).

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

The Silistra province had a population of 142,000 according to a 2001 census, of which 49.7% were male and 50.3% were female.

[8] As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 127,659[2] of which 25.6% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.