Bulgaria

The country calling code for Bulgaria is +359. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Bulgaria number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Bulgaria is assigned BG as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BGR as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Bulgaria is .bg. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Bulgaria is the Bulgarian lev, with the ISO 4217 code BGN and the symbol лв. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Bulgaria are quoted in BGN. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Bulgaria is +02:00, currently UTC+02:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia. Bulgaria sits in Europe, specifically the Eastern Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 43.00000000, 25.00000000. Traffic in Bulgaria drives on the right. Languages recorded for Bulgaria: Bulgarian.

Bulgaria shares a land border with 5 countries: Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.