MY

ROMANIA
 GEOGRAPHY

LOCATION
Southeastern
Europe

Geographic
coordinates:
46 00 N
25 00 E
Land boundaries total: 2,508 km
Border countries and sea
 Romania - total area: 237,500 sq km

The 12th
country in
area in
Europe
after UK.
 POPULATION

21 mil. inhabitants

73% live in urban areas

Another 8 mil Romanians

live abroad
 Romania’ three vital landscape features:

1. Variation

2.Proportionality
3. Concentrical
relief forms
 Variation and proportionality combined
mountains (31%) hills and plateaus (33%)

plains (36%)
 Historical provinces

The borders of the provinces have been mainly decided by the

natural features
Elevation extremes

Highest point:
Moldoveanu (Fagaras
Mountains) 2.544 m

Lowest point:
Black Sea 0 m
 The Black Sea

•Romania

•Bulgaria

•Turkey

•Georgia

•Russia

• Ukraine
245 km of Romanian
Black Sea Coast
Black Sea resorts – some of the finest
tourist attractions in the country
The Danube Delta
It’s the youngest land in Europe, it grows
larger by 40 m of land every year
 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
 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
delta’s ecology problems
The Danube River
The majestic Danube Gorge
Rivers
•Arges

•Bistrita
•Buzau
•Ialomiza
•Jiu

•Mures

•Olt

•Prut
•Siret
•Somes
•Arges
Rivers •Olt

•Prut •Mures
 Lakes
Rosu
Techirgiol

Sinoe

Razelm St. Ana

Brates
Snagov

Tasau
 Romanian Mountains

Dominate the middle of the country like a natural fotress

The Carpathians

Three large Carpathic

units are to be found
on the Romania’s
territory:
• the Eastern
Carpathians,
• the Southern
Carpathians,
•the Western
Carpathians
Wind-modeled stones in an “Egyptian style” - the Sphinx
 The Carpathians preserve
traces from the glacial period

and the valleys and the

glacial lakes increasing the
beauty of the landscape
 Muddy volcanoes – found
in the region where the mountains take a turn towards West.
Caves
Wintertime
Summertime
 Majestic human creations
in the heart of Carpathians
 CLIMATE IN ROMANIA - Continental temperate
Cold, cloudy winters with
frequent snow and fog

Sunny summers with frequent

showers and thunderstorms
Romania has an excellent climate for
growing wine
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
Roads
Romania-highway projects
 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 and38Ilfov

At the end of the rainbow
you’ll find a pot of gold
 BUCHAREST
Romania's capital was once known as the "Little Paris."
 Bucharest — Fast Facts
Population: 2.2 million
Inhabited since: 500
BC First documented: 1459 AD
Romanian Athenaeum

Triumphal Arch
 Central National Library
and the European Union
Info Center in Bucharest

The Romanian Senate

 The National Opera

Press Building
The People House

Is the second biggest

building in the world
after the Pentagon
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)
EXPECT TO VISIT
BEAUTIFUL
COUNTRY