Ubicación: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey

Cordenadas Geográficas: 43 00 N, 25 00 E

Referencias en el mapa: Europe

Area:
total: 110,910 sq km
land: 110,550 sq km
water: 360 sq km

Area - comparativo: slightly larger than Tennessee

Fronteras:
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 (all with Serbia), Turkey 240 km

Costa: 354 km

Demandas Marítimas:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

Clima: temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers

Terreno: mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast

Extremos de Elevación:
lowest point: Black Sea 0 m
highest point: Musala 2,925 m

Recursos Naturales: bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land

Uso de Tierras:
arable land: 43%
permanent crops: 2%
permanent pastures: 14%
forests and woodland: 38%
other: 3% (1999 est.)

Tierras Irrigadas: 12,370 sq km (1993 est.)

Peligros Naturales: earthquakes, landslides

Ambiente - asuntos actuales: 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

Ambiente - acuerdos internacionales:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol

Nota - geografía: strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia