Produces a large share of the world's rose oil, and its script - Cyrillic - was devised here in the 9th century.
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Bulgaria
Republic of Bulgaria ยท ะัะปะณะฐัะธั
Europe
ยท Eastern Europe
0Population
110.88Kkmยฒ of land
$9.83KGDP / person
SofiaCapital
- ISO codes
- BG ยท BGR
- Density
- 63 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Bulgarian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +359
- Internet domain
- .bg
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 42.5090ยฐ N, 25.1570ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Bulgarian
- UN region
- Eastern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $68.56B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Bulgaria stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
106th
of 242 ยท 0.09% of world population
Land area
106th
of 242 ยท 0.07% of world land
GDP per person
106th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
141st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Bulgaria
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 6,975,761 people, the 106th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,101 of everyone alive.
Covers 110,879 kmยฒ, making it the 106th largest country here - about 12 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 63 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Sofia, at 42.69ยฐ N, 23.31ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,185,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Sofia.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Bulgarian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Sofia
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Sofia
Grad Sofiya
42.6853ยฐ N, 23.3147ยฐ E
1.19M
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Bulgaria.