The Kostenets municipality is one of the 22 municipalities of the Sofia Province

Sofia Province

Sofia Province is a province of Bulgaria. The province does not include Sofia in its territories, but Sofia however remains its administrative center...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. Its territory is 302 km² and has 14,154 inhabitants as of 2009. It encompasses the Valley of Gorna Banya, along the upper flow of the Maritsa

Maritsa

The Maritsa or Evros , ) is, with a length of 480 km, the longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkans. It has its origin in the Rila Mountains in Western Bulgaria, flowing southeast between the Balkan and Rhodope Mountains, past Plovdiv and Parvomay to Edirne, Turkey...

 river, surrounded by Rila

Rila

Rila is a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria and the highest mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkans, with its highest peak being Musala at 2,925 m...

 to the south and Sredna Gora

Sredna Gora

Sredna Gora is a mountain range in central Bulgaria, situated south of and parallel to Balkan mountain range and extending from the river Iskar to the west and the elbow of Tundzha north of Yambol to the east. Sredna Gora is 285 km long, reaching 50 km at its greatest width...

 to the north. The region has many warm mineral springs in the spa resorts of Momin Prohod

Momin Prohod

Momin Prohod is located in western Bulgaria and is part of the Kostenets Municipality in the Sofia Province, about from city of Sofia. In 2006 it obtained administrative autonomy and the status of town ....

, Momina Banya, Kostenets

Kostenets

Kostenets is a village in the Sofia Province southwestern Bulgaria, located in the Kostenets Municipality . As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 4,201...

 and Pchelinski Bani. The municipality has an important transport location with the Trakiya motorway

Trakiya motorway

The Trakia motorway or Thrace motorway, designated A1, is a motorway currently in construction in Bulgaria. It is planned to connect the capital of Sofia with Burgas on the Black Sea through Plovdiv and with Kalotina on the Serbian border. The motorway is named after the historical region of...

, the first class road Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

-Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

 and the Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

-Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

 railway passing through it.

Settlements

The municipality has nine settlements (2 towns and 7 villages) with a total population of 14,154 people (as of 2009-03-15)

The place names in bold have the status of town

Town

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 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad). Other localities have the status of village

Village

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 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo). The names of localities are transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

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, followed in parentheses by the original name in Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Pop.
Dolna Vasilitsa	Долна Василица	n/a
Golak	Голак	2
Gorna Vasilitsa	Горна Василица	257
Kostenets Kostenets Kostenets is a village in the Sofia Province southwestern Bulgaria, located in the Kostenets Municipality . As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 4,201... (town)	Костенец (град)	7,762
Kostenets (village)	Костенец (село)	4,025
Momin Prohod Momin Prohod Momin Prohod is located in western Bulgaria and is part of the Kostenets Municipality in the Sofia Province, about from city of Sofia. In 2006 it obtained administrative autonomy and the status of town ....	Момин проход	1,788
Ochusha	Очуша	31
Pchelin	Пчелин	274
Podgorie	Подгорие	15
TOTAL		14,154