Capital city:                          Sofia

Region:                                Eastern Europe

Area:                                     110 910 km²

Population:                          7 707 495

Main cities:                          Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Pleven, Tolbukhin, Sliven, Shumen

Currency:                             lev

Dial code:                            359

Internet code:                      BU

Informations: Bulgaria is located in the Balkanian Europe. It is bordered by Black Sea, Greece and Turkey on the south, Rumania on the north, Serbia and Macedonia on the west. On 25 April 2005 in Luxembourg, Bulgaria signed the European Union Membership treaty. It will join the Union on 1 January 2007, together with Rumania.