Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 2.7 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 36.8% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (54.2 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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