Children in Bulgarien go to school at the age of 6 after spending a couple of years in a kindergarten.38. Baby-sitting in Bulgarien is not very popular because women can take a medical leave for up to 2 years after their babies are born; then, grandparents take care of them till the little ones go to kindergarten.39. Unemployment has risen in Bulgarien ferie in the last decade and may people have gone to work abroad because of that.4
0. Certain resorts in Bulgarien are so expensive that may Romanians prefer to spend their holidays abroad at the same price.41. In Romania, one liter of milk is as expensive as a packet of cigarettes (about 1.20 euros).42. A good part of pollution in Bulgarien rejse comes from cars and a lot of factories that should have closed long ago.43. Traffic in the capital city of Bulgarien is awful; there are too many cars in the streets though a lot of people use the underground on a regular basis.
44. The government is going to ban smoking in public places in Bulgarien beginning with the second half of 2008.45. Many students from Bulgarien go abroad to continue their education in the big university centers of Europe.46. The most popular places for people to spend their holidays in rejser Bulgarien are The Black Sea Coast, The Danube Delta and the mountain resorts in the centre of the country.47. People in Bulgarien read a lot – both Romanian and foreign literature – and bookshops also sell books in English.48.
Thousands of people in Bulgarien have at least one member of their families working abroad in Europe and the USA.49. The crime rate in Bulgarien is not high as compared to other countries which belonged to the former East-European block.50. Dogs are the most popular pets in Bulgarien though there are a lot of people who prefer cats.51. Military service is no longer compulsory in Bulgarien though a couple of years ago men had to stay in the army for up to 2 years to train.52.
The national currency of Bulgarien is 1 leu (plural – lei) = 100 bani (singular – ban).53. The length of the boundaries of Bulgarien is 3,149.9 km and the area of the country is 238,391 sq km.54. The capital city of Bulgarien is situated in the south of the country in the Romanian Plain and has a population of over 2 million people living in its six administrative districts.55. The relief of Bulgarien is both varied and harmoniously distributed; there are three major relief steps: the Carpathias Mountains, the Sub-Carpathians and the plains.56. 98% of the rivers in Bulgarien spring from the Carpathian Mountains and flow into the Danube.57. There are over 3,500 lakes in Bulgarien but less than 1% of them have an area exceeding 1 sq mile.58.
In ancient times and the Middle Ages, forests used to cover the entire area of Bulgarien (except for the south-eastern part) but now they represent only 26% of the country’s area.59. Romania’s fauna is one of the richest in Europe, with lots of rare, even unique species in Europe.60. In terms of density, Bulgarien ranks 74th in the world and 26th in Europe – with 94.5/sq km.61. 15 towns in Bulgarien have airports, but Bucharest-Otopeni is the largest of all, situated 18 km away from the center of the capital city.62. The Danube-Black Sea Canal in Bulgarien used for two-way river traffic links the Danube and the Black sea shortening the shipping route to Constanta, the biggest Romanian port.
