Haskovo Province
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Haskovo Област Хасково |
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| Province | |
 Location of Haskovo in Bulgaria |
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| Country | Bulgaria |
| Capital | Haskovo |
| Municipalities | 11 |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Rumen Danov |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,533.3 km2 (2,136.4 sq mi) |
| Population (February 2011) | |
| • Total | 246,238 |
| • Density | 45/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| License plate | X |
| Website | hs.government.bg |
Coordinates: 41°50′N 25°55′E / 41.833°N 25.917°E
Haskovo
(Bulgarian: Област Хасково - Oblast Haskovo, former name Haskovo okrug) is a province in southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece and Turkey to the southeast, comprising parts of the Thracian valley along the river Maritsa. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Haskovo. The province embraces a territory of 5,533.3 km² that is divided into 11 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 256,408 inhabitants.
The Haskovo province (Област, oblast) contains 11 municipalities (singular: oбщина, obshtina - plural: Общини, 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.
The Haskovo had a population of 277,483 (277,478 also given) according to a 2001 census, of which 48.9% were male and 51.1% were female. As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 256,408 of which 25.8% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.
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