Lom is the second most important Bulgarian port on the Danube after Ruse and part of Montana Province, situated on the right bank of the Danube, close to the estuary of the Lom River. It is the administrative centre of the eponymous Lom Municipality.

Landmarks:

• Plazha (Bulgarian: Плажа) – the 500 m. long pebbled beach at the bank of the Danube River, 3 km. from the centre of the city
• Town Museum of History, housed in the building of the old town-hall.
• Preserved foundations of the antique fortress Almus
• Postoyanstvo, the oldest community centre in Bulgaria
• Building of the former School of Pedagogy
• The Church of Boruna
• Monument of Tseko Voivoda (1807–1881), a participant in the battles for liberation of Serbia and proclaimed by the Serbian government to be a voyvoda (revolutionary leader)