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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, F,
TV Systems:
System:PAL D / PAL K
DVD-Region: 2
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine
Area:
total: 237,500 sq km
land: 230,340 sq km
water: 7,160 sq km
Climate:
temperate; cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow and fog; sunny summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms
Terrain:
central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Walachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps
Economy
GDP: $183.6 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 4.5% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $8,200 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 9% (2005 est.)
Currency: leu (ROL) is being phased out in 2006; "new" leu (RON) was introduced in 2005 due to currency revaluation: 10,000 ROL = 1 RON
Exchange rates:
lei per US dollar - 3 (2005), 3 (2004), 3 (2003), 3 (2002), 3 (2001)
People
Population: 22,303,552 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: -0.12% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Eastern Orthodox (including all sub-denominations) 86.8%, Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal) 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%, none 0.1% (2002 census)
Languages:
Romanian (official), Hungarian, German
Government
Capital:
name: Bucharest
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
9 May 1877 (independence proclaimed from the Ottoman Empire; independence recognized 13 July 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin; kingdom proclaimed 26 March 1881); 30 December 1947 (republic proclaimed)
Note: Information on Romania was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Romania, please visit one of the links below.
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