167 Villages in Bulgaria are without a Single Inhabitant

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The depopulation of Bulgarian villages continues. In 1173 villages, which is about one fifth of all settlements in our country, live up to 50 people, and in 167 villages there is not a single inhabitant. This is shown by the data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) at the end of 2021.

The largest number of villages without inhabitants are mountainous and are located in the districts of Gabrovo (61), Veliko Tarnovo (50), Kardzhali (12) and Smolyan (10).

The total number of settlements in Bulgaria is 5257, of which 257 are cities. There are also 165 settlements, of which 8 are of national importance and the rest are local.

Six cities have a population of over 100,000 people. These are Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, Ruse and Stara Zagora, where more than a third of the country's population lives (34.4%).

The capital is the only city in Bulgaria with a population of over 1 million people, and by the end of 2021 the population of the capital is over 1.3 million.

The population of Sofia Municipality is unevenly distributed in its separate administrative regions. At the end of 2021, in three of them - "Lyulin", "Mladost" and "Student City", live 24% of the inhabitants of Sofia Municipality, and each of these areas numbers over 100,000 people. The smallest district in Sofia Municipality is Bankya with a population of 11,615 people, or 0.9 percent of the municipality's population.

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