Connecting Continents & Civilizations

The unique location of Bulgaria makes it a hinterland between Europe and Asia, which connects continents and civilizations.

• Location: Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula, bordering the Black Sea.

• Total area: 110,910 sq. km

• Borders: In the North Bulgaria is bordered by Romania through the Danube River (the distance Sofia–Bucharest is 427 km), in the East–by the Black Sea, in the South–by Turkey (the distance Sofia–Ankara is 997 km) and Greece (the distance Sofia–Athens is 872 km), and in the West–by Macedonia (the distance Sofia–Skopje is 228 km), by Serbia (the distance Sofia–Belgrade is 382 km.)

• Administrative division: Constitutive unit-municipality; 28 regions with regional centers; capital-Sofia; largest regional centers-Plovdiv, Varna, Rousse, Stara Zagora, Bourgas, etc.

• Form of state government: Parliamentary republic.