Roumainie

Roumainie România  (Romanie)
Banner Coat o airms
Anthem: Deșteaptă-te, române! "Wauken, Roumainien!"
Location o  Roumainie  (daurk green) – on the European continent  (green & daurk grey) – in the European Union  (green)  —  [Legend]
Caipital	Bucharest 44°25′N 26°06′E
Maistmuckle city	capital
Offeecial leids	Roumains
Recognised minority leids	Albanie Armenie Bulgarie Czech Croatie German Greek Italian Macedonian Hungarian Pols Romani Roushie Rusyn Serbian Slovak Tatar Turkis Ukrainian Yiddish
Ethnic groups (2011)	88.9% Roumainiens 6.1% Ungairiens 3.0% Roma 0.2% Ukrainiens 0.2% Germans
Demonym(s)	Roumainien
Govrenment	Unitar semi-presidential republic
• Preses	Nicușor Dan
• Prime Meenister	Luca Niculescu
Legislatur	Pairlament
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	Chaumer o Deputes
Formation
• Kinrick o Dacia	168 BC
• Roman conquest	106
• Migration Period	275 – 10t century
• First Roumainien polities	10t century – 1330
• Principality o Wallachie	1330
• Principality o Moldavie	1346
• Principality o Transylvanie	1570
• First union unner Michael the Brave	1600
• Unitit Principalitiesa	24 Januar 1859
• Unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire	9 Mey 1877 / 1878b
• Kinrick o Roumainie	14 Mairch 1881
• Great Unionc	1 December 1918d
Area
• Total	238,397 km2 (92,046 sq mi) (83rd)
• Water (%)	3
Population
• Januar 2026 estimate	19,041,322 19,186,201 (65t)
• 2021 census	19,053,815 (58t)
• Density	79.9/km2 (206.9/sq mi) (132nd)
GDP (PPP)	2026 estimate
• Total	$942.929 billion (37t)
• Per capita	$49,628 (44t)
GDP (nominal)	2026 estimate
• Tot	$470.091 billion (38t)
• Per capita	$24,741 (53rd)
Gini (2025)	27.3 law
HDI (2023)	0.845 verra heich · 55t
Currency	Roumainien leu (RON)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Date format	dd.mm.yyyy (AD)
Drivin side	right
Cawin code	+40
ISO 3166 code	RO
Internet TLD	.roe
The dooble election o Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Moldavie an Wallachie (respectively, 5 an 24 Januar 1859). Unthirldom proclaimed on 9 Mey 1877, internaitionally recognised in 1878. The union o Roumainie wi Bessarabie, Bukovina an Transylvanie in 1918. Monarchy wis abolished on 30 December 1947 upon the proclamation o the Fowkrepublic an wis cheenged wi the new constitution upon its adoption on 21 August 1965 as the Socialist Republic. The Communist regime fell on 22 December 1989, the new democratic govrenment wis installed on 20 Mey 1990 an the new post-communist constitution wis adoptit on 21 November 1991. Roumainie jyned the European Union on 1 Januar 2007. An aa .eu, shared wi ither European Union member states.

The coonties o Roumainie

Roumainie (România [romɨˈni.a] ( listen)) is a kintra in Central an Sootheastren Europe. It sits on the lawer coorse o the Danube, north o the Balkan Peninsula, on the northwast shore o the Black Sea. It mairches Ukraine tae the north an east, Hungary tae the wast, Serbie tae the soothwast, Bulgarie tae the sooth, Moldovae tae the east, an the Black Sea tae the sootheast. It haes an area o 238,397 square kilometre (92,046 sq mi) an a temperate-continental climate. Wi aboot 19 million fowk, it is the saxt maist populous member state o the European Union. Its caipital an lairgest ceety is Bucharest, that haed a population o ower 1.7 million in 2021. In 2011 the ceety haed 1,883,425 fowk, the saxt-lairgest in the EU.

The River Danube, Europe's seicont-langest river, rises in Germany an flowes maistly sootheast for 2,857 km (1,775 mi), throu ten kintras, afore it empties intae Roumainie's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Moontains, that cross Roumainie frae the north tae the soothwast, include Moldoveanu, at 2,544 m (8,346 ft).

Modren Roumainie wis formed in 1859 throu a personal union o the Danubian Principalities o Moldavie an Wallachie. The new state, offeecially cried Roumainie syne 1866, wan its unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire in 1877. At the end o Warld War I, Transylvanie, Bukovina an Bessarabie unitit wi the sovereign Kinrick o Roumainie. In Warld War II, Roumainie wis an ally o Nazi Germany agin the Soviet Union, fechtin alangside the Wehrmacht till 1944, whan it jyned the Allies an wis occupied bi the Reid Airmy. Roumainie lost several territories, tho Northren Transylvanie wis gotten back efter the war. Efter the war, Roumainie becam a socialist republic an a member o the Warsaw Pact. Efter the 1989 Revolution, Roumainie stairtit a transeetion tae democracy an a caipitalist mercat economy.

In 2017 Roumainie wis coontit a developin kintra an ane o the puirest in the European Union, rankit 50t in the Human Development Index, tho its economy wis growin at an estimatit 5% a year, level wi Maltae for the heichest in the EU. Syne then it haes grown faist, an the World Bank nou coonts it a heich-income economy. Its economy is maistly based on services, an it is a producer an net exporter o machines an electric energy, wi companies lik Automobile Dacia an OMV Petrom. It haes been a member o NATO syne 2004, an pairt o the European Union syne 2007. Maist o the population see thairsels as Eastren Orthodox Christians an are native spikkers o Roumains, a Romance leid. Roumainie is weel kent for its airtists, muisickers, inventors an sportsfowk.