ROMANIA

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 GEOGRAPHY

LOCATION
Southeastern
Europe

Geographic
coordinates:
46 00 N
25 00 E

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 Land boundaries total: 2,508 km
Border countries and sea

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 Romania - total area: 237,500 sq km

The 12th
country in
area in
Europe
after UK.

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 POPULATION

21 mil. inhabitants

73% live in urban areas

Another 8 mil Romanians

live abroad

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 Romania three vital
landscape features:

1. Variation

2.Proportionality

3. Concentrical
relief forms

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 Variation and proportionality combined
mountains (31%) hills and plateaus (33%)

plains (36%)

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 Historical provinces

The borders of the provinces have been mainly decided by the natural features
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 Elevation extremes

Highest point:
Moldoveanu (Fagaras
Mountains) 2.544 m

Lowest point:
Black Sea 0 m

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 The Black Sea

Romania

Bulgaria

Turkey

Georgia

Russia

Ukraine

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 245 km of Romanian
Black Sea Coast

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Black Sea resorts some
of the finest
tourist attractions in the
country

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 The Danube Delta

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 Its the youngest land in Europe, it grows
larger by 40 m of land every year

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 Danube Delta UNESCO haritage

The largest wetland in

Europe with over 1,200
species of trees and plants

and the richest

ornithological fauna on the
continent

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 Did you know that
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his
Cousteau Foundation team
have studied Danube Delta in
1991 and

created an international
centre for education, training
and scientific meetings in
environmental protection and
deltas ecology problems

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 The Danube River

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 The majestic Danube Gorge

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 Rivers

Arges

Bistrita

Buzau
Ialomiza

Jiu

Mures

Olt

Prut
Siret

Somes
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 Rivers Olt

Arges

Bistrita 20
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 Lakes

Rosu
St. Ana
Techirgiol
Sinoe
Razelm
Brates
Snagov
Tasau

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 Romanian Mountains

Dominate the middle of the country like a natural fotress

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 The Carpathians

Three large Carpathic

units are to be found
on the Romanias
territory:
the Eastern
Carpathians,
the Southern
Carpathians,
the Western
Carpathians

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 Wind-modeled
stones in an
Egyptian style -
the Sphinx

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 The Carpathians preserve
traces from the glacial period

and the valleys and the

glacial lakes increasing the
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 Muddy volcanoes found
in the region where the mountains take a turn towards West.

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 Caves

Scarisoara cave entrance

and interior

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 Wintertime

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 Summertime

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 Majestic human creations
in the heart of Carpathians

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 CLIMATE IN ROMANIA - Continental temperate

Cold, cloudy winters with

frequent snow and fog

Sunny summers with frequent

showers and thunderstorms

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 Romania has an excellent climate for
growing wine

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 Natural resources

natural gas
petroleum
timber
coal
iron ore
salt
arable land
hydropower
granite
sand
stone quarries, etc

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 Land use

arable land: 45%

permanent crops: 2%
meadows and pastures: 18%
forest and woodland: 26%
others: 9%

Irrigated land: 31,000 sq km

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 The railway network

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 Roads

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 Romania-highway projects

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 Development regions from
Romania - EU
7. Center
6. North West
1. North East

2. South East
5. West

4. South West, Oltenia

3. South, Muntenia 8. Bucharest and 38

Ilfov
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 At the end of the rainbow
youll find a pot of gold

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 BUCHAREST
Romania's capital was once known as the "Little Paris."

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 Bucharest Fast Facts
Population: 2.2 million
Inhabited since: 500
BC First documented: 1459 AD

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 Romanian Athenaeum

Triumphal Arch 42

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 Central National Library
and the European Union
Info Center in Bucharest

The Romanian Senate

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 The National Opera

Press Building

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Opera House
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 The People House

Is the second biggest

building in the world
after the Pentagon

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 The European Transport Corridors

The Park is directly

beside:
Trans European
Corridor No IV
motorway (Berlin
Istanbul) the primary
road link to Western
Europe
Corridor No.IX
(Helsinki
Alexandoupolis)
River
Corridor No.VII
(Constanta Rhine)

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