Fun & Interesting Facts about Romania

• The capital of Romania is Bucharest, once popular as the ‘Paris of the East’.
• Romania is bordered by Ukraine in the North, Moldova on east, Black Sea in the South east, Bulgaria in the south, Yugoslavia in the southwest and Hungary in the West.
• Apart from the official Romanian language, Hungarian and German form two other major languages of Romania.
• Romania has a Republic type of government.
• The currency of Romania is Romanian ‘leu’ (RON).
• Romania's Danube Delta is a World Heritage site and is the second largest delta in the whole of Europe.
• The Dacian fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, in Romania, belong to the Late Iron Age.
• Gheorghe Marinescu, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, was the first person to see living nervous cells with a microscope.
• More than half of Romania's Jewish population died in the Second World War.
• Romania was a part of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) and the Warsaw Treaty Organization.
• After the Second World War, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova was formed, which was earlier a part of Romania.
• Romania joined the European Union in 2007, along with Bulgaria.
• In the year 2000, 100 tonnes of cyanide, from a gold mine in northern Romania, spilled into rivers in Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia and destroyed aquatic life for several hundred kilometers.
• The Transylvanian city of Sibiu is credited as the European Capital of Culture 2007.
• Irish author Bram Stoker based his horror novel ‘Dracula’ on the fifteenth century Wallachian Prince, Vlad Dracul of Romania.
• Romania’s ancestors are Dacians who were great warriors though they were defeated by the Romans under Trajan.
• Romania’s most prominent mineral resource is oil.
• Romania is the ninth largest nation in European Union by area. Its capital is Bucharest which is largest city in the country and the 6th largest in the European Union.
• Though the majority of Romanians are Christians, Romania does not have any official religion.
• The colors of the Romanian flag are red, yellow and blue which represent the blood of the people, grains which feed the people and the sky.
• The traditional sport of Romania is Oin which is unique and is similar to baseball.
• Romania is said to be the gateway to Middle East, Western Balkans and Caucasus region and has a prominent shipping port in Black Sea.
• The gypsies which form a good population in Romania have their representatives in Romanian parliament.
• Romania has witnessed the rise and fall of numerous empires such as Romans, Ottomans and Austro-Hungarians.

Form of State: Romania is a semi-parliamentary democracy based on a
bicameral Parliament: the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate.
All members of the legislature are directly elected from Romania's 41 counties.)

Legal system: Based on European models and Constitution of 1991.

Electoral System: Universal direct suffrage over the age of 18.
Parties must win at least five percent of the national vote to gain
representation in the Parliament.

National Elections: December 9, 2012;
next ellections: Fall 2014 (presidential), Fall 2016 (parliamentary)

Head of State: President of the Republic, currently Mr. Traian Basescu
(re-elected on December 6, 2009).
Romania's president is allowed to serve two consecutive five-year terms.

National Government: The government is led by the Prime Minister,
confirmed by the Parliament on the nomination of the President of Romania.
The present Government is formed by the "Social-Liberal Union (USL)
a Social-Democratic Party and National-Liberal Party coalition.

Head of the Government: the Prime Minister, currently
Mr. Victor Ponta (Social-Democratic Party).

Main political parties:
Social Democratic Party (PSD), National Liberal Party (PNL), Democratic-Liberal
Party (PD-L), Democratic Union of the Hungarian Minority (UDMR).

Regional Government: Forty-one County Councils (Consiliu Judeţean).

Romania is a member state of the
European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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