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

43 00 N, 25 00 E

Europe

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

slightly larger than Tennessee

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

354 km

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

temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers

mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast

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

bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable
land

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

12,370 sq km (1993 est.)

earthquakes, landslides

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

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

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