Municipalities
The Pazardzik province (oбласт, oblast) contains 11 municipalities (Bulgarian: singular: oбщина, obshtina - plural: oбщини, obshtini). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village (towns are shown in bold), and the population of each as of December 2009.
| Municipality | Cyrillic | Population | Area (km²) |
Density (persons per km²) |
Administrative centre |
Population of the centre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pazardzhik | Пазарджик | 121,366 | 636.8 | 190.59 | Pazardzhik | 75,346 |
| Velingrad | Велинград | 41,613 | 803.2 | 51.81 | Velingrad | 23,686 |
| Septemvri | Септември | 27,304 | 361.3 | 75.57 | Septemvri | 8,422 |
| Panagyurishte | Панагюрище | 26,095 | 589.5 | 44.27 | Panagyurishte | 17,959 |
| Peshtera | Пещера | 21,691 | 135.4 | 160.20 | Peshtera | 19,363 |
| Rakitovo | Ракитово | 15,482 | 246.6 | 62.78 | Rakitovo | 8,261 |
| Bratsigovo | Брацигово | 10,290 | 229.4 | 44.86 | Bratsigovo | 4,452 |
| Belovo | Белово | 9,282 | 336.2 | 27.61 | Belovo | 3,837 |
| Batak | Батак | 6,331 | 677.2 | 9.35 | Batak | 3,498 |
| Lesichovo | Лесичово | 5,809 | 208.9 | 27.81 | Lesichovo | 975 |
| Strelcha | Стрелча | 5,351 | 224.5 | 23.84 | Strelcha | 4,273 |
| Total | 290,614 | 4,456.9 | 65.2 |
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