| 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. |
![Location of Romania (dark green)– on the European continent (green & dark grey)– in the European Union (green) — [Legend]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romania_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg)
