The Stolichna Municipality (Bulgarian: Столична община, Stolichna obshtina (also transcribed as Stolična obština), "Capital Municipality") is an obshtina (municipality) in Sofia City Province, Western Bulgaria.
It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Sofia, which is also the capital of Sofia City Province and Sofia Province and the capital of Bulgaria as well.
The municipality is located mainly in the Sofia field, and also in the foots and lower parts of the mountains of Stara planina and Vitosha, Plana, Lozen, Rila. It is home to 1,500,927 inhabitants from which 1.400 million live in Sofia (as of 2016).
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Name | Since | Distance | |||
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DZI Sofia Center | 2020 | 0.6km | site_ao | ||
Sofia en ru | 2014 | 1.6km | site_izi | ||
Underground Mining Museum | 2020 | 25.9km | site_ao | ||
Surva Carnival at Pernik | 2019 | 25.4km | site_ao | ||
Bulgaria’s Museum of Socialist Art | 2017 | 4.6km | site_ao | ||
National Palace of Culture | 1975 | 1.5km | site_brutalism | ||
Zala Festivalna (today: Asics Arena) | 3.9km | site_brutalism | |||
Boyana Church | 1979 | 7km | site_whs |
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