# NUTS 3 areas of Bulgaria by enterprise births, 2023

All 28 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_births`
- Unit: count
- Definition: New enterprises created during the year from scratch. Enterprises formed by a merger, break-up or change of legal form, and enterprises reactivated within two years, are not births.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size_r) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-births/bulgaria-provinces

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sofia (stolitsa) | 13,578 |
| 2 | Plovdiv | 4,279 |
| 3 | Varna | 3,721 |
| 4 | Burgas | 3,487 |
| 5 | Blagoevgrad | 2,199 |
| 6 | Stara Zagora | 1,411 |
| 7 | Ruse | 1,124 |
| 8 | Haskovo | 1,094 |
| 9 | Sofia | 1,059 |
| 10 | Veliko Tarnovo | 1,056 |
| 11 | Pleven | 971 |
| 12 | Pazardzhik | 950 |
| 13 | Dobrich | 753 |
| 14 | Sliven | 732 |
| 15 | Shumen | 654 |
| 16 | Kyustendil | 612 |
| 17 | Gabrovo | 597 |
| 18 | Pernik | 587 |
| 19 | Vratsa | 586 |
| 20 | Kardzhali | 558 |
| 21 | Yambol | 507 |
| 22 | Lovech | 493 |
| 23 | Smolyan | 461 |
| 24 | Montana | 449 |
| 25 | Razgrad | 442 |
| 26 | Targovishte | 382 |
| 27 | Silistra | 346 |
| 28 | Vidin | 265 |