As the Bulgarian authorities did not publish the results of the 1946 census regarding the number of ethnic Macedonians in Bulgaria, Yugoslav sources claimed that some 252,000 people declared themselves as Macedonians in that census.
由于保加利亚当局没有公布1946年人口普查中马其顿人数，而来自南斯拉夫的消息称，此次人口普查中约有252,000人宣称自己是马其顿人。