The Varna region
Varna Province (Oblast Varna) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, and on? of the 28 Bulgarian provinces. It comprises 12 municipalities
and its administrative centre is Varna city.
The province's territory is 3,820 square kilometres. It borders the Black Sea and covers parts of the hilly Danubian Plain (including parts of the
Frangen Plateau, South Dobruja, the Provadiya Plateau, Ludogorie, and the Avren Plateau), Eastern Stara Planina, the Varna—Devnya valley with the lakes
(limans) of Varna and Beloslav, and the Kamchiya river valley. Other rivers include Provadiya, Devnya, and Batova, and the largest artificial lake
is Tsonevo.
The Black sea coast is hilly and verdant, mostly cliff, with a couple of rocky headlands (Cape Galata, Cape St. Athanassius), several expansive sand
beaches, the largest of which, at the mouths of the rivers Kamchiya and Shkorpilovska, is nearly 13 km long and up to 200-300 m wide, and many small
cove beaches. Agricultural lands cover 60% of the area, with fertile chernozem soils mostly in the north and west; forests—28.1% (with some of the oldest
oak massives in the nation), mostly in the south; and urban zones—6.8%.
The climate inland is temperate, with cold, damp winters and hot, dry summers, and akind to Mediterranean along the Black Sea coast, with milder winters
and cooler summers.............
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