Dragoman ( ) is the seat of

Dragoman Municipality Dragoman Municipality is a municipality in Sofia Province, Bulgaria. Demography According to the 2011 census, there are 5,362 people living in the municipality of Dragoman, down from 17,187 people in 1934. Most inhabitants live in the town of Dra ...

in the

Sofia Province Sofia Province () is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. The province does not include Sofia in its territories, but Sofia remains the seat of its administration. The province borders on the provinces of Pernik, Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad, Paz ...

, western

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. The town is located very close to the border with

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. the population was 5,362.

Info

The average temperature in January is , in July - .

Economy

There are the following companies in the town of Dragoman: KONTAKTNI ELEMENTI JSC (Bulgarian: «КОНТАКТНИ ЕЛЕМЕНТИ» АД) is a company producing bimetallic electrical contact rivets and silver solders, tin-lead solders - 40, 50, 60, zinc and tin anodes. The company was founded in 1980.

Political situation

Mayor of the Dragoman Municipality is Andrey Ivanov, on the results of elections from November 8, 2011. Political party –

GERB GERB, an acronym for Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (), is a conservative center-right populist political party which was the ruling party of Bulgaria during the periods between 2009–2013, 2014-2021, 2025-present and was suppor ...

(Bulgarian: ГЕРБ, derived from Граждани за европейско развитие на България/Grazhdani za evropeysko razvitie na Balgariya, "Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria"), is a Bulgarian centre-right political party.

Honour

Dragoman Glacier on Smith Island,

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is named after Dragoman.

References

Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Sofia Province {{Sofia-geo-stub