The Bourgas district is situated in the southeast part of East Bulgaria, surrounded by the ridge of the Balkan to the north, the state boundary between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Turkey to the south, the Sliven and Yambol districts to the west and the Black Sea to the east. Its total area is 7753.14 sq. m.
The Sozopol municipality is situated in the northeast part of the district and occupies 5.4% of its territory - an area of 784 357 decares. It borders the Bourgas municipality to the north, the Sredets municipality to the west, the Black Sea to the east, and the Tsarevo and Malko Tarnovo municipalities to the south. The total territory of the Sozopol municipality encompasses 362 306 decares of farm lands, 422 051 decares of a forest fund and 1225.8 decares of beach resources, which are one of the largest on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. They are the chief factor that determines and forms the branch structure of the municipal economy - tourism, recreation and sports, forestry and farming.
The proximity to Bourgas - the administrative and economic centre of Southeast Bulgaria, an important and perspective transport centre along the Black Sea - Adriatic axis, which is a part of the European transport network, in combination with the opportunities for tourism, recreation and sports leads to more active investments and the foundation of new enterprises.
The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast is characterized with varied and specific vegetation, which has preserved in its structure Tertiary relicts and endemic species which grow only on the municipality's territory in the whole Europe. Especially rich in Euxinic species are the forests of the Stranja Mountain, some of which are on the territory of the Sozopol municipality. Pontic rhododendron, Stranja oak, Pontic mezereon, Stranja whortleberry, wild medlar, cherry-laurel, etc. grow in them. There occur forests of sessile oak, of oriental beech, xerophyte cerris-and-maple forests and specific dense forests (longoses). There also grows psammophyte, halophyte and hasmophyte vegetation respectively upon the sands, the salty and the rocky terrains.
Some typically Mediterranean species permeate in the coastal zone, some of which, including the rhododendron, even form phytocenoses. In the shrubberies of Christ's thorn and xerophyte herbaceous formations grow asparagus, jasmine and numerous annual bulbous plants. On the Zmiiski Ostrov (Snake Isle), belonging to the Sozopol municipality, is the only Bulgarian habitat of wild cacti.
Very specific for the coastal area are the forest communities known as longoses, formed along the lower stream of the Ropotamo River. To see the exact location Sozopol on the map, please see the location:http://www.bgmaps.com/map.asp?sid=fd5ced4d91285ca82b5f04acc9840207&city=%D1%CE%C7%CE%CF%CE%CB&plz=8130
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