It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Novo Selo.
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It is located in northwestern Bulgaria, between the villages of Rabisha and Tolovitsa in Belogradchik municipality, Vidin Province.
This border crossing is the most relaxed since the other two largely link the capitals and the larger cities, and it is also the only crossing point situated on a plain; the other two - Deve Bair (Kriva Palanka-Kyustendil) and Lisichkovo (Delčevo-Blagoevgrad) - are situated at the peaks of mountains.
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The crossing is named after the two closest settlements situated along the road on either side of the frontier: Novo Selo is a near-by Macedonian village in the oblast of Strumica and Petrich is a small Bulgarian town situated in the Blagoevgrad Province.
It is administered as part of the municipality of Selca.
According to the travel notes of the Italian traveller Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, the village was founded around 1700 and was initially named Prosǎnǎc (Просънъц).
Aleksandrov was born in the Novo Selo suburb of Štip, present day Republic of Macedonia, to Aleksandar Poporushev and Marija Aleksandrova.