The town of Elhovo has a population of 11 500 inhabitants and lies at a distance of 38 km south of Yambol. It is the centre of a municipality with 21 settlements. The town is situated along the lower current of the Tundzha River at an altitude of 160 m.

The favourable location has created conditions for human settlements since the Neolith. The Bronze Age is represented by the Thracians. Remains of Thracian fortresses, a settlement and burial mounds are preserved. Among the discovered objects dominate the household ceramics, weapons and ritual slabs with the image of the Thracian horseman. The Thracians have established the first settlement near the site of the present-day town and have given it the name of Oruditza. The Romans later fortify the settlement and rename it to Oruditza ad Burgum. The town has been a road station between Kabile and Adrianopol. During the early Middle Ages the settlement is known under the name of Yoanitza. After the settlement of the Slavs in VII c. the name of the town is pronounced as Yanitza. The town enters the limits of the Bulgarian State in 802-814. Evidence of that is the famous Hambaritza inscription, found in the vicinities of the village of Malomir. In 1373 the town is conquered by the troops of Timurtash Bey. As part of the Ottoman Empire the town is known under the name of Kazal agach. After the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke the name of the town is changed into Elhovo.

The monuments of culture found in the region of Elhovo are exhibited in the ethnographic museum.

Tourist sights of the town are: the church "Saint Dimiter" built in 1878 and the ethnographic museum.