It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast, and its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river.

[1] There are remains of many castles, including Baba Vida, one of the last Bulgarian strongholds during the Ottoman invasion and the Belogradchik fortress.

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 territory of the province includes the most western parts of the Danubian Plain and Stara Planina, while the Danube forms the border with Romania.

[8] As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 108,067[2] of which 32.6% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.