Rudozem (
Bulgarian Cyrillic: Рудозем) is a town in southern
Bulgaria, near the
Greek border, located in the
Rhodope Mountains, where the Elhovo and Chepino rivers flow into the
Arda, and is part of
Smolyan Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Rudozem Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 3,583 inhabitants.