The Danube Delta here is the best preserved river delta in Europe and a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Romania
Romania ยท Romรขnia
Europe
ยท Eastern Europe
- ISO codes
- RO ยท ROU
- Density
- 81 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Romanian
- Currency
- Romanian leu (RON)
- Dial code
- +40
- Internet domain
- .ro
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 45.7330ยฐ N, 24.9730ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Romanian
- UN region
- Eastern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $250.08B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Romania stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Romania
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 19,356,544 people, the 61st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.25 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 238,391 kmยฒ, making it the 84th largest country here - about 7.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 81 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Bucharest, at 44.44ยฐ N, 26.10ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,942,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Bucharest.
The currency is the Romanian leu (RON, symbol lei).
The official language is Romanian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Romania.