Map of Bulgaria

Bulgaria is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 43.0° N, 25.0° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Bulgaria is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Bulgaria shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Bulgaria covers about 110,879 km² (42,811 sq mi). That makes it the 103rd-largest country in the world by area and the 15th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 30 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 6,437,360, the 110th-largest in the world and the 21st-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.9% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Bulgaria has an average population density of about 58 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 21st by population and 15th by area.

The seat of government is Sofia, and the official currency is the Bulgarian lev (BGN, лв), and the main official language is Bulgarian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Bulgaria carries the ISO country codes BG and BGR, dials on the international calling code +359 and uses the .bg internet domain.

Bulgaria shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Turkey (capital Ankara, about 85,664,944 people), Romania (capital Bucharest, about 19,036,031 people), Greece (capital Athens, about 10,400,720 people), Serbia (capital Belgrade, about 6,567,783 people) and North Macedonia (capital Skopje, about 1,822,612 people).

By area, Bulgaria is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 43.0° N, 25.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Bulgaria within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Sofia. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Bulgaria lies about 4,773 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Bulgaria keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Bulgarian lev (BGN, лв).

The official language is Bulgarian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +359 and websites commonly use the .bg internet domain.

In short, Bulgaria is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Sofia. Bulgaria has a population of about 6,437,360 and covers around 110,879 km² (42,811 sq mi), ranking it 110th in the world by population and 103rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Bulgaria.

The flag of Bulgaria is composed of three equal horizontal bands of white, green and red.

The flag of Bulgaria is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.