| Related Sites: Romanian History Currency Converter Romanian Recipes Language Romanian Wines Romanian Business European News Pictures  | Where is Romania? | South east of the Central Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, in the Lower Danube basin, bordering the Black Sea. | Who surrounds the borders? | - In the east: Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and the Black Sea;
- In the south: Bulgaria;
- In the southwest: Serbia
- In the west: Hungary;
- In the north: Ukraine. | | Population: | 21,698,181 inhabitants (per 2002 census returns). | | Capital: | Bucharest municipality (divided into six administrative districts, with a population of 2,066,723 lies in the south-eastern part of the country, in the Romanian Plain. Bucharest is a city featuring a rich vegetation, wide parks, which has inspired the name of "garden-city". Bucharest is a living city with monumental buildings, big and interesting museums, theatres, opera house, exhibition halls, memorial houses, universities, central public and administrative offices. The Palace of Parliament, is the second building in the world in point of size, after the Pentagon. The capital is also the largest industrial center of Romania, with numerous factories and plants of all industries (iron-and-steel, engineering, fine mechanics, tanning yards, food industry). |
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