Romania

 

Interesting Facts about Romania

• The capital of Romania is Bucharest, once popular as the ‘Paris of the East’.
• Terrain: Consists mainly of rolling, fertile plains; hilly in the eastern regions of the middle Danube basin; and major mountain ranges running north and west in the center of the country, which collectively are known as the Carpathians.
• Climate: Moderate.
• Romania came into being when the two principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia broke the shackles of Turkish Ottoman suzerainty and merged, in 1859, to form a new land - ‘Romania’.
• Romania covers a total area of 237,500 sq km and the total population of the place is around 22.5 million.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Bran Castle, associated with Vlad Dracul, still lies in Romania and forms its most popular tourist attraction.

 

Statistics for Romania

 

Population:	22,215,421 (July 2009 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:	male: 69 years female: 76 years (2009 est.)
Total fertility rate:	1.39 children born/woman (2009 est.)
Religions:	Orthodox 86.8%, Roman Catholic 5%, Reformed Protestant, Baptist, and Pentecostal 5%, Greek Catholic (Uniate) 1 to 3%, Muslim 0.2%, Jewish less than 0.1%.
GDP - per capita (PPP):	$12,200 (2008 est.)
Literacy:	total population: 97.3%

 

Adoption Facts about Romania

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Note: Romania has stopped all international adoptions except in the case of biological grandparents of the child. In 2008, U.S. citizens adopted approximately 2 children from Romania.

 

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ro.html

http://adoption.state.gov/country/romania.html