Romania România |
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Anthem: Deşteaptă-te, române! Awaken, Romanian!
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Capital (and largest city) | Bucharest (Bucureşti) 44°25′N 26°06′E / 44.417°N 26.1°E / 44.417; 26.1 |
Official language(s) | Romanian1 |
Ethnic groups | 89.5% Romanians, 6.6% Hungarians, 2.5% Romma, 1.4% other minority groups |
Demonym | Romanian |
Government | Semi-presidential republic |
- | President | Traian Basescu (PD-L) |
- | Prime Minister | Emil Boc (PD-L) |
- | Pres of Senate | Mircea Geoană (PSD) |
- | Chamber Pres | Roberta Anastase (PD-L) |
Legislature | Parlamentul României |
- | Upper House | Senate |
- | Lower House | Chamber of Deputies |
Formation |
- | Transylvania | 1003 |
- | Wallachia | 1290 |
- | Moldavia | 1346 |
- | First Unification | 1599 |
- | Reunification of Valahia and Moldavia | January 24, 1859 |
- | Officially recognised independence from the Ottoman Empire | July 13, 1878 |
- | Unification with Transylvania | December 1, 1918 |
EU accession | January 1, 2007 |
Area |
- | Total | 238,391 km2 (82nd) 92,043 sq mi |
- | Water (%) | 3 |
Population |
- | July 2009 estimate | &000000002221542100000022,215,421[1] (51st) |
- | 2002 census | 21,680,974 |
- | Density | 90/km2 (104th) 233/sq mi |
GDP (PPP) | 2010 estimate |
- | Total | $258.892 billion[2] |
- | Per capita | $12,131[2] |
GDP (nominal) | 2010 estimate |
- | Total | $168.644 billion[2] |
- | Per capita | $7,902[2] |
Gini (2005) | 31 (low) (21st) |
HDI (2010) | 0.767[3] (high) (50th) |
Currency | Romanian leu (RON) |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
- | Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Drives on the | right |
ISO 3166 code | RO |
Internet TLD | .ro4 |
Calling code | 40 |
1 Other languages, such as Hungarian, German, Turkish, Crimean Tatar, Greek, Romani, Croatian, Macedonian, Ukrainian and Serbian, are official at various local levels. 2 Romanian War of Independence. 3 Treaty of Berlin. 4 The .eu domain is also used, as in other European Union member states. |