!!!Bulgaria: Geography
||Location|Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey
||Geographic Coordinates|43 00 N, 25 00 E[{GoogleMap location='43.0,25.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''110,879 sq km\\''land: ''108,489 sq km\\''water: ''2,390 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''1,806 km\\''border countries: ''Greece 472 km, Macedonia 162 km, Romania 605 km, Serbia 344 km, Turkey 223 km
||Coastline|354 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Black Sea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Musala 2,925 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Musala 2925 m; Vihren 2915 m; Kutelo 2908 m; Malka Musala 2902 m; Banski Suhodol 2884 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Musala 2925 m; Polezhan 2851 m; Mal’ovitsa 2729 m; Botev 2376 m; Vitosha 2290 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Europe/Bulgaria/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
||Natural Hazards|earthquakes; landslides
||Natural Resource|bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land
||Land Use|''arable land: ''29.28%\\''permanent crops: ''1.44%\\''other: ''69.28% (2011)
||Climate|temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers
||Irrigated Land|1,046 sq km (2007)
||Renewable Water Resources|21.3 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|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-Sulfur 94, 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, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Sofia; Plovdiv; Varna; Burgas; Ruse\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Europe/Bulgaria/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia\\[Important Rivers|Geography/Europe/Bulgaria/Geography/Important_Rivers]\\[Important Lakes|Geography/Europe/Bulgaria/Geography/Important_Lakes]