About Romania
Official name: Romania
Government form: a bicameral parliamentary republic
Surface: 238.391km2; as its surface, it occupies the 79th position in the world and the 11th in Europe. Borders total length: 3.149,9 km, of which 1.085,5 km - terrestrial border and 2.064,4 km - pluvial and marine border.
Geographic position: south-east of Europe, in the north of the Balcanic half-isle, in Danube field, with a Black Sea exit, at equal distances between the North Pole and the Equator. Romania’s territory is traversed, approximately through the middle, by the of 45 degrees Northern latitude parallel and also by the 25 degrees Eastern longitude meridian.
Neighbors: The Republic of Moldavia- in East; The Black Sea - in South-East; Bulgaria - in South; Serbia - in South-Vest; Hungary - in North-Vest; Ukraine - in North.
Population: 21.698.181 inhabitants (2002), of which - 89,5% Romanians; 6,6% - Hungarians; 2,5% - Romany population; 0,3% - Germans; and also other nationalities.
Religions: ~86% orthodoxes; ~5% Catholics; ~3,5% reformed; ~1% - Greek-Catholics; ~1% - Pentecostals; the rest, are Baptists, Moslems, Mosaics etc.
Administrative distribution: 41 administrative units, plus the City of Bucharest, the capital of our country, with over 2 millions of inhabitants.
Official language: Romanian, a Romance language. There are other idioms, too, used by the minorities (mostly Hungarian and German), but there are also some widespread ones, like English, German, French, Italian or Spanish.
National Holiday: the 1st of December, when we celebrate the Great Union, the fundamental event that created our country and brought all the Romanians together.
National Flag: three vertically disposed bands- colored in red, yellow and blue.
Official hour: the Eastern Europe hour - GMT+ 3 HOURS- (in summer - between the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October); GMT +2 HOURS (in winter).
Telephone code: 0040 (+40).
Currency: 1 leu (plural- lei).
Measuring system: the metrical system.
Climate: temperate-continental. |
