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•Country: Bulgaria

•Area: 110 910 sq km

•Population: about 8 million

•Capital: Sofia, population over a million

•Coastline: 354 km

•Administrative division: 28 provinces

•Location: Bulgaria is situated in Southeast Europe and occupies an area of 111 000 sq.km in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. The average altitude is 470 m.
•Language: The official language is Bulgarian and uses only the Cirillic alphabet. To facilitate tourists, road and direction signs in populated areas, resorts, railway stations, airports and along the main motorways are also spelled in Roman letters. English, German, French, Russian and other languages are spoken in the country

•Religion: Predominantly Eastern Orthodox. The Bulgarian Church is autonomous and headed by a Patriarch

•Public holidays:

•January 1 - New Year

•March 3 - National day of the Liberation from Ottoman Domination

•Easter - Two days (Sunday and Monday) according to the Orthodox calendar

•May 6 - St. George's Day

•May 24 - the Day of Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture and Slav Script

•September 6 - National Day of Bulgaria's Reunion in the year of 1885

•September 22 - Independence Day

•November 1 - Day of the Bulgarian Revival Leaders

•December 24-26 - Christmas Eve and Christmas

•December 31 - New Year's Eve