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Country name | Romania (RO) - addopted 1862, after the unification of Moldova with Wallachia |
Location | South-Eastern Europe 45° north (middle distance between Equator and North Pole) 25° east |
Main cities | Bucharest (capital), Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Constanta, Suceava |
Administrative division | 41 counties and Bucharest municipality (2,5 million inhabitants) 263 towns out of which 25 with over 100.000 inhabitants |
National Day | Dec. 1st (Unification of the Romanian historical regions and proclamation of the Republic of Romania, 1918) |
Coat of Arms | (adopted 1992) Eagle holding a cross in its beak and a sword and a scepter in its claws as well as the symbols of the 5 historical provinces: Walachia, Moldova, Transylvania, Maramures, Dobrogea. |
Language | Romanian, of Latin origin. Also spoken: german, hungarian, english, french. |
Currency | Romanian LEU |
Religion | main: Romanian Orthodox also: Catholic, Lutheran, Refomed, Muslim, Jewish, Adventist, Unitarian, Pentecostal, Baptist |
Population and ethnic groups | 21.698.181 (2002): 89% Romanians, 7% Hungarians, Gipsies (2,5%) several other minorities: Germans, Turks, Jews, Serbians, Croatians, Armenians, Greeks, Ukraniean etc. |
Surface | 238.391 sqkm (11th of Europe, 79th in the world) |
Climate | temperate continental;
winter: cold, frequent snow summer: hot, with showers, storms |
Terrain | hills (33%) mountains (31%) plains (36%) Black Sea - 0m, Moldoveanu - 2.544m |
Telephony | International code +0040 mobile phone networks: Vodafone, Orange, Zapp, Cosmorom. |
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