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“Romania is a Latin tear-drop in a Slavic sea”
Mihai Eminescu, national poet
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- Capital: Bucharest
- Government: Republic with two Houses of Parliament
- Currency: New Leu
- Location: on the 45th parallel, in South Eastern Europe, in the Northern part of the Balkans Peninsula, inside the Danube river basin, opening onto the Black Sea
- Climate: temperate - continental (average temperatures +30° C to -4° C)
- Neighbours: Moldova Republic (East) and the Ukraine (North), Hungary (North-West), Serbia (South-West) and Bulgaria (South), Black Sea (242 Km of marine border in the South-East).
- Surface: 238. 391 km2 (4,8% of Europe’s surface)
- Relief: mountains (the Carpathians), hills, tablelands, depressions, plains, seaside, delta (the Danube Delta, a unique ecosystem, nowhere to be found across Europe)
- Population: 21.698.181 inhabitants (2002), Romanians (89,5%), Hungarians, Germans, Rroms, Ukrainians, Russians, Turks, Tartars, Serbs, Croatians, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews
- Official language: Romanian
- Other languages spoken: Hungarian, German, English, French, Italian
- Religion: Orthodox (86,7%); other denominations: Roman - Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, Greek - Catholic, Baptist, Evangelic, Lutheran, Muslim, Mosaic
- Administrative: 41 administrative units, 40 of them counties, with Bucharest city a distinct unit
- Legal Holidays: January 1 and 2; Easter (regardless of cult);December 1 - the National Day; December 25 and 26 (Christmas); May 1
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