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Villages with enough people that locals would call them a proper town, but small enough that they rarely make the news. Ranked play starts here, since cities are too easy to be a real test.

In Bulgaria this set is spread across 14 different provinces, with Blagoevgrad home to the most of them (3).

How this category is defined

Place kinds on GuessTheDot are a practical grouping by population and place type for gameplay, not a legal or historical designation. A place can hold official city rights (or an old city charter) and still show up here as a village if it stayed small, and the other way around: this is a rough size ladder for guessing, not a statement about a place's official status.

Places in this set

22

Smallest population

18,931

Largest population

54,778

Median population

27,338

Two you might get asked about

Harmanli
18,931 inhabitants, Haskovo
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Asenovgrad
54,778 inhabitants, Plovdiv
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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All 22 big villages in Bulgaria

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Asenovgrad	54,778	Plovdiv
Dupnitsa	34,764	Kyustendil
Gorna Oryahovitsa	32,792	Veliko Tarnovo
Petrich	30,722	Blagoevgrad
Smolyan	30,689	Smolyan
Karlovo	30,340	Plovdiv
Svishtov	30,157	Veliko Tarnovo
Silistra	29,498	Silistra
Razgrad	28,931	Razgrad
Sandanski	28,510	Blagoevgrad
Lovech	27,910	Lovech
Samokov	26,765	Sofia
Sevlievo	24,582	Gabrovo
Nova Zagora	23,625	Sliven
Troyan	21,162	Lovech
Aytos	20,986	Burgas
Botevgrad	20,909	Sofia
Gotse Delchev	20,522	Blagoevgrad
Velingrad	20,286	Pazardzhik
Karnobat	19,709	Burgas
Panagyurishte	19,389	Pazardzhik
Harmanli	18,931	Haskovo

Tips for this category

These places cluster around bigger cities more than you would expect: check the commuter belt of the nearest big city first.
Names ending in common local suffixes (think "-dorp", "-ham", "-ville") often hint at the region, not just the country.

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