The rural areas in Bulgaria include over 80% of the country's territory and over 40% of its population according to the applied national definition. With respect to the sums, which Bukgaria can get from SAPARD for the period 2000-2006 it ranks third
to the on-going processes, with the polarization of society, and with prognoses regarding the future development of the Bulgarian capital city. Sofia ranks first in the country in terms of population, numbers employed in the national economy, GDP generated