Romania România  (Romanian)
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Capital and largest city	Bucharest 44°25′N 26°06′E / 44.417°N 26.100°E / 44.417; 26.100
Official languages	Romanian
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Ethnic groups (2011)	88.92% Romanians 6.50% Hungarians 3.29% Romani 1.29% Turkish people, Crimean Tatars, Xoraxane Roma, Danube Swabians
Religion (2011)	92.3% Christianity —81.0% Romanian Orthodoxy —6.2% Protestantism —5.1% Catholicism 6.2% No religion 1.5% Islam
Demonym(s)	Romanian
Government	Unitary semi-presidential republic
• President	Klaus Iohannis
• Prime Minister	Marcel Ciolacu
Legislature	Parliament
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	Chamber of Deputies
Establishment history
• Unification	24 January 1859
• Independence	9 May 1877/1878
• Greater Romania	1918 / 1920
• Socialist Republic	30 December 1947
• Current state form	27 December 1989
Area
• Total	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (81st)
• Water (%)	3
Population
• 1 January 2021 estimate	19,186,201 (61st)
• 2011 census	20,121,641
• Density	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (136th)
GDP (PPP)	2022 estimate
• Total	$704.355 billion (36th)
• Per capita	$36,446 (66th)
GDP (nominal)	2022 estimate
• Total	$314.876 billion (47th)
• Per capita	$16,293 (56th)
Gini (2020)	▼ 33.8 medium
HDI (2019)	0.828 very high · 49th
Currency	Romanian leu (RON)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Date format	dd.mm.yyyy (AD)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+40
ISO 3166 code	RO
Internet TLD	.roa
Also .eu, shared with other European Union member states.

Romania (old spelling: Rumania, Roumania; Romanian: Româniacode: ro is deprecated , IPA: [ro.mɨˈni.a]) is a country in southeastern Europe. It is north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube River. Western Romania is circled by the Carpathian Mountains. Romania also has a border on the Black Sea. Most of the Danube Delta is found inside Romania. Romania shares borders with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine to the far northeast, the Republic of Moldova to the near northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.

Romania is a semi-presidential unitary state. It was created when Moldavia and Wallachia joined in 1859. It was given its independence in the Treaty of Berlin of 1878. At the end of World War II, some of its land (close by what is now known as Moldova) was occupied by the USSR. After the Iron Curtain fell in 1989 Romania was liberated from the communist regime. During the 2000s, Romania made changes to the country, such as reform the democratic system, human rights acts, freedom of speech acts, economy and law. That let Romania join the European Union on January 1, 2007.