Country Profiles: Bulgaria Webquest Worksheet

This worksheet on Bulgaria is designed to help students explore the country and organize essential facts. Students begin with basic information, including the capital, population, official language, and currency. In the geography and environment section, they examine Bulgaria’s location in southeastern Europe, its borders with Romania, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey, as well as natural features like the Balkan Mountains, Black Sea coastline, and Danube River. The government and politics section encourages research into Bulgaria’s parliamentary republic system, current leaders, and membership in the European Union and NATO. The economy section prompts students to investigate major industries such as energy, agriculture, tourism, and IT, along with Bulgaria’s role as an EU economy. In culture, students can learn about Bulgarian traditions, Orthodox Christianity, Cyrillic alphabet heritage, folk music, Rose Festival, and cuisine (like banitsa and yogurt). The tourism section highlights landmarks such as Sofia, Plovdiv’s Roman ruins, Rila Monastery, Black Sea resorts, and natural parks. The reflection portion allows students to share surprising findings, compare Bulgaria with their own country, and identify a place they’d like to visit and why.

Keywords: Bulgaria, Sofia, Balkan Mountains, Black Sea, Danube River, Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Orthodox Christianity, Rose Festival, EU, NATO, Plovdiv, Rila Monastery, tourism, culture, economy, geography, MUN, reflection