page_title: Municipalities of Bulgaria
section_title: Pazardzhik Province
hierarchical_section_title: Municipalities of Bulgaria / Pazardzhik Province
caption_attribution_description: English: Croatian names on map of Pazardzhik District (Bulgaria) Hrvatski: Slijepa karta oblasti Pazardžik s latiničnim nazivima mjesta
context_page_description: The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities. Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popular majority vote for a four-year term, and a municipal council which is elected using proportional representation for a four-year term. The creation of new municipalities requires that they must be created in a territory with a population of at least 6,000 and created around a designated settlement. They must also be named after the settlement that serves as the territory's administrative center, among other criteria.
  The council of a municipality is further permitted to create admininistrative subdivisions: mayoralties, settlements, and wards or quarters. Mayoralties are overseen by elected mayors and typically comprises one or more villages or towns; they must contain a population of at least 250. Settlements are overseen by a manager appointed by the mayor of a municipality and thus have fewer responsibilities and less power than a mayoralty; they must have a population of fewer than 150.
context_section_description: Batak Municipality (main town: Batak)
  Belovo Municipality (main town: Belovo)
  Bratsigovo Municipality (main town: Bratsigovo)
  Lesichovo Municipality (main village: Lesichovo)
  Panagyurishte Municipality (main town: Panagyurishte)
  Pazardzhik Municipality (main town: Pazardzhik)
  Peshtera Municipality (main town: Peshtera)
  Rakitovo Municipality (main town: Rakitovo)
  Sarnitsa Municipality (main town: Sarnitsa)
  Septemvri Municipality (main town: Septemvri)
  Strelcha Municipality (main town: Strelcha)
  Velingrad Municipality (main town: Velingrad)
caption: The municipalities of Pazardzhik Province
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