 | Country (long form) | Republic of Bulgaria | | Capital | Sofia | | Total Area | 42,822.59 sq mi 110,910.00 sq km (slightly larger than Tennessee) | | Population | 7,707,495 (July 2001 est.) | | Estimated Population in 2050 | 4,478,866 | | Languages | Bulgarian, secondary languages closely correspond to ethnic breakdown | | Literacy | 98.0% total, 99.0% male, 98% female (1999) | | Religions | Bulgarian Orthodox 83.5%, Muslim 13%, Roman Catholic 1.5%, Jewish 0.8%, Uniate Catholic 0.2%, Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other 1% (1998) | | Life Expectancy | 67.72 male, 74.89 female (2001 est.) | | Government Type | parliamentary democracy | | Currency | 1 lev (Lv) = 100 stotinki | | GDP (per capita) | $6,200 (2000 est.) | | Industry | electricity, gas and water; food, beverages and tobacco; machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined petroleum, nuclear fuel | | Agriculture | vegetables, fruits, tobacco, livestock, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets | | Arable Land | 43% | | Natural Resources | bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land | |