How big is Bulgaria really?

Bulgaria covers 110,994 km² (42,900 sq mi). On the usual world map (the Mercator projection) it is drawn about 1.86 times bigger than it really is.

See Bulgaria at its true size on the map →

True size vs the map

Both drawn at the same scale. The map keeps shapes but swells everything away from the equator.

Bulgaria in numbers

Bulgaria is the 105th largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
On the map Bulgaria looks bigger than Cambodia, but Cambodia is really 1.63 times larger.
Countries of about the same true size: Liberia (111,369 km²), Cuba (109,884 km²), Honduras (112,492 km²).
The United Kingdom is 2.2 times the size of Bulgaria.

Why the map gets Bulgaria wrong

Bulgaria lies around 43°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.36 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 1.86 times too big near its middle. Most web maps use this projection because it keeps angles and shapes right for navigation, not because it shows sizes fairly.

In Globegami you can drag a copy of Bulgaria anywhere on Earth: it keeps its true size and grows or shrinks on the map as it moves, and you can fold the map back into a globe.

Areas: official totals including inland water (UN Statistics Division via Wikidata). Outlines: Natural Earth. How Globegami works