Smolyan Province ( -
Oblast Smolyan, former name
Smolyan okrug) is a
province in Southern-central
Bulgaria, located in the
Rhodope Mountains, neighbouring
Greece to the south. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of
Smolyan. The province embraces a territory of 3,192.8 km² that is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population of 124,795 inhabitants, as of December 2009.