Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 154 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 0.65% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (135.1 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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