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Romania
România  (Romanian)

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Anthem: "Deșteaptă-te, române!"
("Awaken thee, Romanian!")

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Location of Romania (dark green)
– in Europe (green & dark grey)
 – in the European Union (green)  –  [Legend]

Capital Bucharest
and largest city 44°25′N 26°06′E

Official languages Romanian[1]

Recognised minority show

languages [2]
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Ethnic groups  88.92% Romanians
(2011) [3]
6.50% Hungarians
3.29% Romani
1.29% Other

Religion  92.3% Christianity
(2011) [4]
—81.0% Romanian Orthodoxy
—6.2% Protestantism
—5.1% Catholicism
6.2% No religion
1.5% Others

Demonym(s) Romanian

Government Unitary semi-presidential republic

• President Klaus Iohannis

• Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă

Legislature Parliament

• Upper house Senate

• Lower house Chamber of Deputies

Establishment history
• Unification
• Independence
• Greater Romania
• Socialist Republic
• Current state form
24 January 1859
9 May 1877/1878
1918 / 1920
30 December 1947
27 December 1989[5][6][7]

Area
• Total 238,397 km2 (92,046 sq mi) (81st)
• Water (%) 3

Population
• 1 January 2021 estimate  19,186,201[8][9] (61st)
 • 2011 census 20,121,641[3]
• Density 80.4/km2 (208.2/sq mi) (136th)

GDP (PPP) 2022 estimate
• Total $704.355 billion[10] (36th)

• Per capita $36,446 [10] (66th)

GDP (nominal) 2022 estimate
• Total $314.876 billion[10] (47th)

• Per capita $16,293[10] (56th)

Gini (2020)  33.8[11]
medium

HDI (2019)  0.828[12]
very high · 49th

Currency Romanian leu (RON)

Time zone UTC+2 (EET)

• Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Date format dd.mm.yyyy (AD)

Driving side right

Calling code +40

ISO 3166 code RO

Internet TLD .roa

a. Also .eu, shared with other European Union member

states.

Romania (/roʊˈmeɪniə/ ( listen) ro-MAY-nee-ə; Romanian: România [romɨˈni.a] ( listen)) is a country

at the crossroads of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the
south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east and
the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate, and an area of
238,397 km2 (92,046 sq mi), with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the twelfth-largest
country in Europe, and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and
largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-
Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.
The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a
southeasterly direction for 2,857 km (1,775 mi), before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta.
The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Romania from the north to the southwest,
include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of 2,544 m (8,346 ft).[13]