Bulgaria

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Bulgaria Region: Europe More Information: CS Group Wikipedia Wikitravel HitchWiki Country-Ambassadors: Gergana Boeva, Adam Danz.

Bulgaria is a country in the Balkans in Southeastern Europe. Its capital is Sofia.

Contents 1 Getting there 1.1 Neighbour countries 2 Couchsurfing Community 2.1 Historical Data 3 Guides 4 Language 4.1 Alphabet 4.2 Phrases

Getting there

Neighbour countries

• Turkey
• Greece
• Macedonia
• Serbia
• Romania

Couchsurfing Community

As of August 2009 there are 2900 Couchsurfers in Bulgaria.

Biggest Communities:

1. Sofia (1,753 members)
2. Varna (216 members)
3. Plovdiv (198 members)
4. Veliko Tarnovo (64 members)
5. Ruse (56 members)

For detailed stats see: [1]

Historical Data

Sofia (183 members of couchsurfing.com as of May, 2007)
Varna (27 members)
Plovdiv (22 members)
Burgas (8 members)
Veliko Tyrnovo (6)

--royak 14:42, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Guides

Rositsa Yakimova [2] is an active CouchSurfer who will be glad to show you Sofia and around.

Language

• Bulgarian language article on Wikipedia

Alphabet

Bulgarian uses the Cyrillic Alphabet. The Official Transliteration is modelled to be compatible with english letter sounds.

Bulgarian Alphabet	Latin alphabet Transliteration
А а	a
Б б	b
В в	v
Г г	g
Д д	d
Е е	е
Ж ж	zh
З з	z
И и	i
Й й	y
К к	k
Л л	l
М м	m
Н н	n
О о	o
П п	p
Р р	r
С с	s
Т т	t
У у	u
Ф ф	f
Х х	h
Ц ц	ts
Ч ч	ch
Ш ш	sh
Щ щ	sht
Ъ ъ	a
Ь ь	y
Ю ю	yu
Я я	ya

Phrases

• Hello! - Zdravej or Zdrasti
• How are you? - Kak si?
• Do you have a couch? - Imate li kanape?
• Yes! - Da!
• No! - Ne!