Largest Bulgarian communities in Europe and beyond

On the territory of Europe the biggest Bulgarian communities reside in Ukraine, Greece, Spain and Germany, announced Rossen Ivanov, head of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, quoted by Focus Agency.

Bulgarians in Ukraine are 204 thousand people, which is the approximate number of Bulgarians in Greece as well. In Turkey there are around 400 000 former and current Bulgarian nationals of Turkish ethnic origin who have left Bulgaria in different periods, Ivanov further explained.

According to official data the number of bans who have settled in Spain is 173 000, while Bulgarians in Germany outnumbers 100 000. There is no information on the number of Bulgarian nationals residing in Great Britain but it is estimated at around 100 thousand. The Bulgarian community in the USA reached 250 000.

Adapted from Bulgarian National Radio