CARTOGRAPHIA LTD is the oldest state-owned company in Bulgaria, involved in map production for the civil and the economic sector.
Taken the specificity and the variety of the work, the Company is unique for the country.

CARTOGRAPHIA LTD has received a Certificate, confirming that the management programme has been evaluated, verifying its compliance with    ISO 9001:2000 management-standard requirements.

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Thanks to the knowledge and the skills of several generations of specialists in the field of cartographic and polygraphist production, the company has published hundreds of editions, characterized by a topic variety of mapping Bulgaria and the World, over its 50 - year history.
  • Map-atlases of Bulgaria, published over the period 1956-1967, M 1:200000, including:
    • Soil maps
    • Geologic maps
    • Tectonic maps
    • Forestry maps
    • Hydrologic maps
  • We shared a significant part of the elaboration of an Economic Map of Bulgaria M 1:10 000.
  • We have participated in the elaboration of a World Map M 1:2 500 000, in co-operation with Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, DDR, Romania and USSR.
  • Danube river pilot map M 1:10 000, in cooperation with European countries over the periods 1966-76 and 1980-86.
The complex thematic mapping of Bulgaria’s territory or some parts of it finds its proof in the publication of district atlases. As characterized by widest scope and highest information density are:
  • Resort district division of Bulgaria – 1971;
  • Atlas of the Republic of Bulgaria – 1973;
  • Bulgarian Military Atlas – 1979;
  • Bulgarian Dialect Atlas – 1979-81;
  • Agro-climatic Atlas of Bulgaria - 1982;
  • Sofia and Sofia Agglomeration Atlas – 1993;
Education-oriented publications have always been of highest priority. These include geographic and historic maps and atlases, relief maps, globes, wall-map reference materials.
CARTOGRAPHIA LTD is responsible for all cartographic references in various encyclopedias and scientific publications:
  • Concise Bulgarian Encyclopedia, 5 volumes – 1963-1969;
  • Encyclopedia, vol. 1 – 1974;
  • Agricultural encyclopedia – 1984-8;
  • Bulgarian encyclopedia, 6 volumes – 1978-88;
  • History of Bulgaria, 7 volumes – 1979-1991;
  • A-Z Encyclopedia – 1998;
We have also provided a wide range of tourist maps and atlases, residential area plans, road maps and atlases, natural-geographic and thematic maps of informative and scientific-referential character.