Country size comparison

compared to

Bulgaria is about 2.1 times smaller than Romania.

Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 46.51% the size of Romania. Meanwhile, the population of Romania is ~18.5 million people (11.6 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Romania vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
Share

Compare further: Bulgaria vs. Romania

Flip Comparison · See true size
See Bulgaria on top of Romania
→
Quality of Life Comparison · 9 statistics
Be 30.2% more likely to be unemployed in Romania
→
Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Romania is 15.0% more expensive than Bulgaria overall
→
Moving from Bulgaria to Romania · UN DESA 2020
11,846 people born in Bulgaria live in Romania.
→