Romania
Romania is a country in Southeast Europe, with its capital at Bucharest, and is home to roughly 19.1M people.
Romanian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Romanian leu (lei); people from here are called Romanian.
- »The Danube Delta is the best preserved river delta in Europe.
- »The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is among the heaviest buildings ever constructed.
Romania touches five neighbours: Bulgaria to the south, Hungary to the west, Moldova to the northeast, Serbia to the southwest and Ukraine to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Bucharest's Palace of the Parliament, built under Ceaușescu, is among the heaviest buildings ever constructed and required demolishing a large part of the historic city.
235,287 km² (90,845 sq mi), 81st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of the United Kingdom.
Population 19,051,804, 67th of 198 on file. That averages 81 per km² (210 per sq mi).
Blue, yellow and red from the historic principalities. It is nearly identical to Chad's, differing only in the shade of blue. Both countries have declined to resolve the coincidence.
Easily confused with Chad, Andorra and Moldova.
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