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SofiaAbout SofiaSofia’s motto is “Ever Growing, Never Ageing!”
The capital of the Republic of Bulgaria is the city of Sofia (1 096 389 inhabitants, 550 metres above sea level). The city lies in the Sofia Plain, enclosed by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Lozen Mountain to the southeast, Mountain Vitosha to the south, the Lyulin Mountain to the southwest. The the plain is open to the northwest in the direction of Yugoslavia, and to the southeast to the Thracian Lowland. Sofia is situated 55 km from the Yugoslav border at Kalotina checkpoint, 113 km from the Gyueshevo checkpoint with Macedonia, 183 km from the Greek border at Koulata, 315 km from the Turkish border at Kapitan Andreevo, 211 km from the Romanian border at Vidin, 324 km at Rousse, 392 km from our maritime border at the port of Bourgas, and 470 km from the port of Varna. In close proximity to the capital city lie Pancherevo Lake and Iskar Dam. The Iskar River flows by the city, and several smaller rivers cross the city, the most popular of these being the Vladaya and the Perlovo Rivers. Sofia is linked by international routes with the capitals of Europe, and via Istanbul and Ankara, with the Middle East. Below is a list of the distance in kilometres to some of these cities:
Amsterdam 2242 Ankara 1010 Athens 863 Barcelona 2541 Belgrade 390 Berlin 1745 Bern 1773 Bonn 1973 Brussels 2196 Budapest 779 Bucharest 383 Warsaw 1691 Vienna 1044 Gdansk 2053 Gibraltar 3792 Dublin 2948 Istanbul 568 Kiev 1519 Copenhagen 2135 Lisbon 3826 London 2512 Madrid 3166 Marseilles 1908 Milan 1371 Moscow 2371 Munich 1483 Oslo 2715 Paris 2307 St. Petersburg 3079 Prague 1352 Rome 1632 Rostov on the Don 1831 Stockholm 2754 Tirana 579 Hamburg 2303 Helsinki 2
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