Geography Of Bulgaria

Location	Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey
Geographic coordinates	43 00 N, 25 00 E
Map references	europe
Area	total: 110,910 sq km water: 360 sq km land: 110,550 sq km
Area comparative	slightly larger than Tennessee
Land boundaries	total: 1,808 km border countries: Greece 494 km, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 148 km, Romania 608 km, Serbia and Montenegro 318 km, Turkey 240 km
Coastline	354 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Climate	temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers
Terrain	mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Black Sea 0 m highest point: Musala 2,925 m
Natural resources	bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land
Land use	arable land: 40.02% permanent crops: 1.92% other: 58.06% (2001)
Irrigated land	8,000 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards	earthquakes, landslides
Environment - current issues	air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes
Environment - international agreements	party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Sulfur 94
Geography note	strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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