The Targovishte Province contains 5 municipalities (singular: община, 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.
[8] As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 129,675[2] of which 24.1% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.
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).