Varna Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Варна) is a seaside municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and near Varna lake. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Varna - which is also the capital of the homonymous province.The municipality embraces a territory of 237.5 km² with a population, as of December 2014, of 344,775 inhabitants, the nation's second largest municipality after the Sofia Capital Municipality.