Wikidata:WikiProject Bulgaria/Administrative Entities

Administrative territorial entities of Bulgaria

Typing and Identification

The administrative territorial entities of Bulgaria are of the following types

• oblast of Bulgaria (Q209824) - 28 instances
• municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) - 265 instances
• kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) - 3177 instances
• municipal district of Bulgaria (Q7553685) - 35 instances

There are also two non-administrative types, city in Bulgaria (Q89487741) and village of Bulgaria (Q15630849) which are both subclass of (P279) of populated place of Bulgaria (Q95993392)

All the entities are identified with BG EKATTE place ID (P3990). Both the administrative and geographic identifiers are available (resp. GAB35-00 and 73403 for Tryavna (Q405136))

The 31 constituency of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (Q43791141) are linked with their constituting entities with associated electoral district (P7938)

Relations

Hierarchy and inclusion

The main hierarchical relation is located in the administrative territorial entity (P131). Note that the hierarchy does not always have the same number of levels.

• In most cases it consists of 3 levels kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) --> municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) --> oblast of Bulgaria (Q209824)
• In Stolichna Municipality (Q4442915) a number of kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) are also part of a municipal district of Bulgaria (Q7553685), such is the example of Voluyak (Q2455639)
• A number of village of Bulgaria (Q15630849) are part of a single kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) or directly part of the municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) (e.g Donchovtsi (Q1079932),Plachkovtsi (Q406335))
• capital (P36) and capital of (P1376) are consistent

Geography

• All the entities have high quality coordinate location (P625)
• municipal district of Bulgaria (Q7553685), municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) and oblast of Bulgaria (Q209824) have OpenStreetMap relation ID (P402), which can be used to recover the corresponding polygons from OpenStreetMap (Q936), using the API or a service like polygons.openstreetmap.fr

Population

population (P1082) from 2020 is available for all entities. In the future this will be automatically updated by User:BGPopBot every three months with fresh data from ESGRAON (Q12279344)

Maintenance

Queries and counts related to maintaining these entities can be found here: Wikidata:WikiProject_Bulgaria/Administrative_Entities/Maintenance