Bulgaria Flag

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Flag of Bulgaria

The flag of Bulgaria is comprises of tricolor equal-sized horizontal bands of white at the top, green at the center and red at the bottom. Bulgaria Flag was adopted during the period of 1877 to 1878 Russo-Turkish War. Later, Bulgaria gained its independence.

April 16, 1879, the Bulgarian Flag got its official recognition having tricolor band of white-green-red. When the communists came to power, they modified the design of the flag by adding their coat of arms, with its red star and other socialist symbols. After the downfall of the communist government, the old plain tricolor was regenerated.

History of Bulgaria Flag

Since 1878 to 1991, there have been several modifications made by the ruling government. The Bulgaria's flag went through various additions such as the Russo-Turkish War in 1878; the flag consists of white, green and red colors, placed horizontally. Also, there was emblem of the People's Republic of Bulgaria was located on the left side of the white stripe. Further, the flag of Bulgaria also contained a lion within a wreath of wheat ears below a red star and above a ribbon. Today, the new Constitution of Bulgaria has approved Bulgarian flag having tricolor color which is white at the top, green at the mid and red at the bottom.

Since 24 April 1998, the Law for the State Seal and National Flag of the Republic of Bulgaria was assigned with some Art Acts mentioned below:

1. The national flag of Bulgaria republic symbol that expresses the independence and sovereignty of the Bulgarian state.
2. The Bulgarian flag has tricolor: white, green and red fields, which will be placed horizontally from the top downwards. On fixative the national flag in a perpendicular situation of the resonant body the colors shall be decided from left to right - white, green, red.
3. The national flag is of a rectangular shape. The fields of the different colors shall be equal in size and shall be placed along the horizontal of the rectangular.

Bulgaria Flag Meaning and Design

The white signifies for peace and prosperity, whereas the green depicts agricultural and wealth and red is for the independence struggle and military courage. Yet, the national flag was resultant from a dissimilar source—the ethnic connotation of Bulgarians with their Slavic brothers the Russians. The Russian flat tricolor of white-blue-red was modified in the Bulgarian flag by the replacement of blue for green.

Bulgaria Country Information, Currency, Codes, Time Zone

Bulgaria is situated in Southeast Europe. The country inhabits a portion of the eastern Balkan peninsula, Macedonia and Serbia to the west, bordering five countries—Greece and Turkey to the south, and Romania to the north. The population of the country is 71 lacs having population density 64/km2 ( 165.8 / sq mi ) of the total land area. Bulgaria is having a unitary parliamentary constitution.

The official language of Bulgaria is Bulgarian and the currency is Lev. Bulgaria comprises of two letters Bulgaria code i.e. BG and its three letters Bulgaria code is BGR and in digits it is 100. The calling code is +359 and the UTC i.e. standard time followed in Bulgaria is UTC +03 hours. Being a unitary parliamentary constitution, Bulgaria comprises a total of 27 independent federal states that are also called as provinces. These are Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Dobrich, Gabrovo, Haskovo, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Shumen, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Sofia Province, Stara Zagora, Targovishte, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Vratsa, and Yambol.