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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