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| Country name: | conventional long form: Republic of Bulgaria |
| conventional short form: Bulgaria |
The National flag of the Republic of Bulgaria is a rectangle with three colours: white, green, and red, positioned horizontally top to bottom. This form of the flag was adopted on April 16, 1879 with the first Bulgarian Constitution.
The Coat of Arms of the Republic of Bulgaria is a state symbol of the sovereignty and independence of the Bulgarian people and state. The Coat of Arms is a crowned rampant golden lion on a dark red background with the shape of a shield. Above the shield there is a crown modeled after the crowns of the kings of the Second Bulgarian kingdom, with five crosses and an additional cross on top. Two crowned rampant golden lions hold the shield from both sides, facing it. They stand upon two crossed oak branches with acorns. Under the shield, there is a white band lined with the three national colors. The band is placed across the ends of the branches and the phrase "Unity Makes Strength" is inscribed on it.
Location: Bulgaria is situated in Southeast Europe and occupies the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula.
Geographic coordinates - 43 00 N, 25 00 E
| Area | total: 110,910 sq km |
| water: 360 sq km | |
| land: 110,550 sq km |
Coastline 354 km
| Elevation extremes | lowest point: Black Sea 0 m |
| highest point: Musala 2,925 m |
People: 85% Bulgarian, 9.5% Turkish, 4.5% Roma
Capital: Sofia
Government type: 28 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast); Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Dobrich, Gabrovo, Khaskovo, Kurdzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Shumen, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Sofiya, Sofiya-Grad, Stara Zagora, Turgovishte, Varna, Veliko Turnovo, Vidin, Vratsa, Yambol
Settlements: 5406
Major language: Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the South branch of the Slavic languages, along with Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. Bulgarian is the most widely spoken language in Bulgaria. It is also spoken in Canada, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States, with an estimated total of 9 million native speakers.
Bulgarian is the oldest written Slavic language. Historically it is divided into Old Bulgarian (9th to 11th century), Middle Bulgarian (12th to 15th century) and Modern Bulgarian (16th century onwards); the present-day written language was standardized in the 19th century. Some words and structures remain from the language of the Bulgars, the Central Asian people who moved into present-day Bulgaria and eventually adopted the local Slavic language. The Bulgar was otherwise unrelated to Bulgarian.
Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of noun declension, the development of a suffix definite article (possibly inherited from the Bulgar language, or taken from Albanian), the lack of verb infinitive, and the retention and further development of the Proto-Slavic verb system. There are various verb forms to express non-witnessed, retold, and doubtful action.
Major religion: Christianity
Life expectancy: 67 years (men), 75 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 lev = 100 stotinki
Public holidays:
- 31st of December & 1st of January - New Year's Eve and New Year's Day
- 3rd of March - Signing of the San Stefano peace treaty in 1878, which secured the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turks
- 1st of May - Labour Day
- 5-7th of May - Orthodox Easte
- 24th of May - Day of the Cyrillic alphabet, created by Saints Cyril and Methodius
- 6th of September - Union Day, when the Ottoman protectorate of Eastern Rumelia was freed to join the independent Bulgarian Principality (in 1885)
- 22nd of September - Bulgarian Independence Day
- 24th, 25th of December - Christmas holidays
Internet domain: .bg
International dialling code: +359
| Railways: | total: 4,294 km |
| standard gauge: 4,049 km 1.435-m gauge (2,710 km electrified) | |
| narrow gauge: 245 km 0.760-m gauge |
| Highways: | total: 37,288 km |
| paved: 33,786 km (including 324 km of expressways) | |
| unpaved: 3,502 km |
| Ports and harbours: | on the Black Sea - Varna, Bourgas, Balchick, Nessebur; |
| on the Danube - Vidin, Lom, Oriakhovo, Nickopol, Svishtov, Rousse, Toutrackan, Sillistra |
Time Zone: Bulgaria is in the Eastern European Time Zone. Eastern European Standard Time (EET) is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+2). Like most states in Europe, Summer (Daylight-Saving) Time is observed in Bulgaria, where the time is shifted forward by 1 hour; 3 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+3). After the summer months the time in Bulgaria is shifted back by 1 hour to Eastern European Time (EET) or (GMT+2)
Media: Bulgaria was one of the last east European countries to pass a broadcasting law in 1996, after some six years of preparation. The delay had an adverse effect on the expansion of commercial broadcasting and the development of public broadcasting. National radio and TV were given the status of public services and granted independence. In May 2000 Balkan News Corporation - part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation - launched bTV, Bulgaria's first national commercial channel. Several privately-owned regional television stations are on the air. In 2003 Nova TV won the bid for a second national commercial TV licence.
The press:
- 24 Chasa - daily
- Trud - daily
- Novinar - daily
- Monitor - daily
- Standart - daily, English-language pages
- Pari - business daily
- Kapital - political, economic weekly
- The Sofia Echo - online newspaper in English
- BNT (Bulgarian National Television) - public, operates Kanal 1 and satellite channel TV Bulgaria
- bTV - private, national network
- Nova TV - private, second national network
- 7 Dni - private
- BNR (Bulgarian National Radio) - public, operates flagship network Horizont, cultural network Hristo Botev, external service Radio Bulgaria
- Darik Radio - private, national coverage
- BTA - news agency
- Novinite - online English-language news site
- Mediapool - online news site
- Focus - online news site
- 150 - Emergency Medical Aid
- 160 - Fire Department
- 166 - Police
- 140 - Sending of telegrams
- 144 - Telephone information service
- 146 - Emergency Road Service
- 165 - Traffic Police
- 175 - Weather forecast
- 180 - Time service
- 0123 - Operator for international calls (if no direct phone call is possible)
- 121 - Operator for long-distance calls within the country
- 120 - Wake up call
- 931-1111 - Sofia Central Railway Station: Information
- 79-8035 - Sofia International Airport: Domestic Flights Information
- 72-2414 - Sofia International Airport: International Flights Information
- 973-2121 - Taxi
- 963-2000; 963-0377 - High Mountain Rescue Service
Public utilities
| Product | Price |
| Electricity | 0,10 euro/kWh |
| Water | 0,50 euro/m3 |
| Inhabited house duty | 50 euro/year |
| Cleaner | 50 euro/month |
| Internet-LAN | 15 euro/month |
| Ground phone | 90 euro/once 4 euro/month 0,10 euro/city call |
| Mobile phone | "M-TEL" 6-22 euro/month 0,07-0,7 euro/min. |
| Fuel | 0,7 euro/litre |
| Diesel | 0,5 euro/litre |
| Gas | 0,3 euro/litre |
| Taxi | 0,25 euro/km. |
| Security "СОТ" | 220 euro/once 30 euro/month |
| Dinner in restaurant for 2: Includes: 2 juices 2 salads 2 soups 2 dishes with meat+garnish 2 coffees | 10 euro |
| Bulgarian wine | from 1 euro to 6 euro/bottle-0,75л |
| accountant | 50-80 euro/month |
| lawyer | 100-130 euro/month |
| secretary | 100-130 euro/month |
| manager | 150-180 euro/month |
| office manager | 150-300 euro/month |
| tip in restaurant | 1-3 euro |
Prices on food
| Product | Price |
| chill chicken | 2.5 euro/kg. |
| English bacon | 4 euro/kg. |
| salami | 1.6 euro/kg. |
| surlion | 7,39 euro/kg. |
| cheese | 1.4 euro/kg. |
| milk | 0.5 euro/liter |
| sauce | 0.5 euro/kg. |
| olive | 1.7 euro/kg. |
| mushroom with sauce | 2.4 euro/kg. |
| rice | 0.4 euro/kg. |
| paste | 0.5 euro/0.220 kg. |
| jam | 0.4 euro/0.3 kg. |
| Coffe Jacobs Monarch | 0.6 euro/0.10 kg. |
| Coffe NESCAFE GOLD | 2 euro/0.1 kg. |
| bread | 0.3 euro/0.8 kg. |
| fruits | 0.6 euro/kg. |
| ABSOLUT vodka | 8 euro/litre |
| bulgarian brandy | 1.5 euro/0,7 litre |
Daily goods
| Product | Price |
| Fa deodorant | 1.2 euro/50 ml. |
| NIVEA cream | 0.8 euro/75 ml. |
| DOVE shower gel | 1.2 euro/250 ml. |
| TEO soap | 0.4 euro/0.1 kg. |
| ELSEVE shampoo | 1.5 euro/250 ml. |
| COLGATE TRIPLE tooth-paste | 0.5 euro/50 ml. |
| ASTERA bulgarian tooth-paste | 0.3 euro/100 ml. |
| BONUX washing powder | 0.3 euro/0.5 kg. |
| BELLE COLOR dye | 2 euro |
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