Bulgaria - officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeastern Europe, and the oldest contemporary country in Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the east, Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north, mostly along the Danube.
Bulgaria is an active member of NATO and is joining the European Union on January 1, 2007. The country has been a member of the United Nations since 1955, and is a founding member of the OSCE. As a Consultative Party to the Antarctic Treaty, Bulgaria takes part in the governing of the territories situated south of 60° south latitude.
All together the country borders estimates to 2245km. 1181 km land borders, 686km river borders and 378km sea borders.
TOTAL AREA - 111 000 km 2
POPULATION (2006г.) - 7 385 367
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE - Bulgarian
OFFICIAL RELIGION - East Orthodoxal
CAPITAL - Sofia
MAJOR CITIES - Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas
SEA BORDER - 378 km
CURRENCY - Bulgarian Lev (BGN)
CALLING CODE - +359
TIME ZONE
- EET (UTC +2); EEST (UTC +3)
Burgas (also transliterated as Bourgas;) is the second-largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is also the fourth-largest by population in the country, after Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. It is the capital of Burgas Province and an industrial and tourist centre. The Burgas Lakes are located around the city.
Burgas International Airport is a connecting point to major Black Sea resorts in Bulgaria such as Sunny Beach, Nessebar, Sozopol, Dyuni, Elenite.
PROVINCE - Burgas
POPULATION
- 208 977
ALTITUDE - 30 meters
POSTAL CODE - 8000/8034
PHONE AREA CODE - 056
Nessebar (variously transliterated), previously known as Mesembria (Greek: Μεσημβρια) and before that as Menebria, is an ancient city on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located in Nessebar municipality, Burgas Province.
In modern times, Nessebar is a major tourist attraction in what has become a popular area with several large resorts - the largest, Sunny Beach, is situated immediately to the north of Nessebar.
Nessebar has on several occasions found itself on the frontier of a threatened empire, and as such it is a town with a rich history. The ancient part of the town is situated on a peninsula (previously an island) connected to the mainland by a narrow man-made isthmus, and it bears evidence of occupation by a variety of different civilisations over the course of its existence. Its abundance of historic buildings prompted UNESCO to include Nessebar in its list of World Heritage Sites in 1983
The international airport Burgas is 25km away from Nessebar, sea port and train station Burgas are 35km away. The beach length is more than 8km and width from 30 up to 60meters, fine and golden yellow sand and natural dunes where 16 rare plants grow, clean water and even sea bottom, without rise or low tides and 1700 sunny hours from may up to october.
PROVINCE - Burgas
POPULATION - 10 194
ALTITUDE - 0 meters
POSTAL CODE - 8230
PHONE AREA CODE - 0554
Sunny Beach (Slanchev bryag, German: Sonnenstrand) is a resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located approximately 35 km north of Burgas in Nesebar municipality, Burgas Province. It is the biggest and most popular holiday resort of the country, and is home to over 130 hotels with more than 60 000 beds. There are also 130 restaurants and numerous live music bars, pubs, nightclubs, discos, cafes... It has been undergoing continuous expansion for many years. In recent years almost the whole hotel base have been renovated and several new luxurious hotels have been built as well as many spectacular apartment complexes.
Sunny Beach has a very small permanent population, but during the summer the resort is home to many thousands of tourists. The main strip of high-rise hotels backing onto the beach is several kilometres long and extends along a wide bay between Sveti Vlas and Nesebar.
Attractions for tourists include the beach, watersports, nightlife, and the nearby historical site of Nesebar. Sunny Beach is mainly popular among young people. The Golden Orpheus International Festival of Popular Song, the Decade of Symphonic Music, part of the International Folklore Festival, fashion-shows and various beach competitions are held there.
*The used information was taken from www.wikipedia.org