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Bucharest

Bucharest is 's capital and largest city. Bucharest has a very interesting mix of old and new: finding a 300-year-old church near a steel-and-glass tower that sits next to a communist-style building is commonplace in Bucharest.
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  • Type: City with 1,880,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Romania
  • Also known as: “Bucharest, Romania”, “Bucuresti”, “Bucureşti”, “București”, “Little Paris”, and “Paris of the East”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Romanian Atheneum and National Cathedral.

Theater building
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The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, , and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's most prestigious concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu Festival.

Church
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The , also known as the People's Salvation Cathedral, is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, , built to serve as the patriarchal cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Photo: Aleksandr Osipov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located in Bucharest city centre, near the University of Bucharest. It is served by . Four statues can be found in the , in front of the university; they depict Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Michael the Brave, Gheorghe Lazăr and Spiru Haret.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cotroceni and Centrul Civic.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in western Bucharest, Romania, located around the hill, in Bucharest's . The nearest Metro stations are , , and Politehnica.

Suburb
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is a district in central Bucharest, , which was completely rebuilt in the 1980s as part of the scheme of systematization under the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, which included the construction of new civic centres in the Romanian cities.

Suburb
13th of September is a district in the south of Bucharest, in , close to the city center.

Bucharest

Latitude
44.4361° or 44° 26′ 10″ north
Longitude
26.1027° or 26° 6′ 10″ east
Population
1,880,000
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
IATA airport code
BUH
United Nations Location Code
RO BUH
Open location code
8GP8C4P3+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 96209423
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
683506
Wiki­data ID
Q19660
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bucharest” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bucharèst”
  • Achinese: “Bukares”
  • Adyghe: “Бухарест”
  • Afrikaans: “Boekarest”
  • Afrikaans: “Bucureşti”
  • Albanian: “Bucharest”
  • Albanian: “Bukuresht”
  • Albanian: “Bukureshti”
  • Amharic: “ቡካረስት”
  • Amharic: “ቡካሬስት”
  • Arabic: “Bucharest”
  • Arabic: “بوخارست”
  • Arabic: “بوخاريست”
  • Aragonese: “Bucarest”
  • Aragonese: “Bucureşti”
  • Aragonese: “București”
  • Armenian: “Բուխարեստ”
  • Arpitan: “Bucarèst”
  • Asturian: “Bucarest”
  • Avaric: “Бухарест”
  • Aymara: “Bukuresti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buxarest şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buxarest”
  • Balinese: “Bukarés”
  • Bashkir: “Бухарест”
  • Basque: “Bucarest”
  • Basque: “Bukarest”
  • Belarusian: “Бухарэст”
  • Belarusian: “Сталіца Румыніі”
  • Bengali: “বুখারেস্ট”
  • Betawi: “Bukarès”
  • Bosnian: “Bukurešt”
  • Breton: “Bucarest”
  • Breton: “Bukarest”
  • Bulgarian: “Букурещ”
  • Burmese: “Bucharest”
  • Burmese: “ဗူးခရက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bucarest”
  • Catalan: “Bucuresti”
  • Catalan: “Bucureşti”
  • Cebuano: “Bucharest”
  • Cebuano: “București (lalawigan sa Rumanya)”
  • Central Bikol: “Bucharest”
  • Central Kurdish: “بوخارێست”
  • Chechen: “Бухарест”
  • Chinese: “Bucharest”
  • Chinese: “布加勒斯”
  • Chinese: “布加勒斯特”
  • Chinese: “東方巴黎”
  • Church Slavic: “Боукоурєщь”
  • Chuvash: “Бухарест”
  • Corsican: “Bucarest”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bükreş”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bükreș”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bukureşti”
  • Croatian: “București”
  • Croatian: “Bukurešt”
  • Czech: “Bucharest”
  • Czech: “Bucuresti”
  • Czech: “Bucureşti”
  • Czech: “Bukurešť”
  • Dagbani: “Bucharest”
  • Dagbani: “Little Paris”
  • Danish: “Bucuresti”
  • Danish: “Bucureşti”
  • Danish: “Bukarest”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bukreş”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bukreș”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bükreş”
  • Dutch: “Boekarest”
  • Dutch: “Bucharest”
  • Dutch: “Bucuresti”
  • Dutch: “Bucureşti”
  • Dutch: “București”
  • Dutch: “Bukarest”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бухарест”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوخارست”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوخاريست”
  • Erzya: “Бухарест ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bucureşti”
  • Esperanto: “București”
  • Esperanto: “Bukarest”
  • Esperanto: “Bukaresto”
  • Esperanto: “Bukareŝto”
  • Esperanto: “Bukureŝto”
  • Estonian: “Bucuresti”
  • Estonian: “Bucureşti”
  • Estonian: “București”
  • Estonian: “Bukarest”
  • Ewe: “Bucharest”
  • Extremaduran: “Bucarest”
  • Faroese: “Bukarest”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bucharest”
  • Finnish: “Bucharest”
  • Finnish: “Bucuresti”
  • Finnish: “Bucureşti”
  • Finnish: “București”
  • Finnish: “Bukarest”
  • French: “Bucarest”
  • French: “Bucuresti”
  • French: “Bucureşti”
  • French: “capitale de la Roumanie”
  • French: “municipalité de Bucarest”
  • French: “Paris des Balkans”
  • French: “petit Paris des Balkans”
  • French: “petit Paris”
  • Fulah: “Bucharest”
  • Gagauz: “Bukureș”
  • Gagauz: “Bukureşt”
  • Galician: “Bucarest”
  • Georgian: “ბუქარესტი”
  • Georgian: “ევროპული მარშრუტი E60”
  • German: “Bucharest”
  • German: “Bucuresti”
  • German: “București”
  • German: “Bukarest”
  • German: “RO-B”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bucharest”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Little Paris”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌿𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌿𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌴𐍃𐍄𐍃”
  • Greek: “Βουκουρέστι”
  • Guarani: “Mbukaréte”
  • Gujarati: “બુકારેસ્ટ”
  • Haitian: “Boukarès”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bucharest”
  • Hausa: “Bukarest”
  • Hebrew: “בוקורשטי”
  • Hebrew: “בוקרסט”
  • Hebrew: “בוקרשט”
  • Hindi: “बुकारेस्ट”
  • Hindi: “बुखारेस्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Bucuresti”
  • Hungarian: “București”
  • Hungarian: “Bukarest”
  • Icelandic: “Búkarest”
  • Ido: “Bucarest”
  • Ido: “București”
  • Inari Sami: “Bukarest”
  • Indonesian: “Bukares”
  • Indonesian: “Bukarest”
  • Interlingua: “Bucarest”
  • Interlingue: “Bucarest”
  • Irish: “Bucaireist”
  • Irish: “Búcairist”
  • Italian: “Bucarest”
  • Italian: “Bucharest”
  • Italian: “Bucuresţi”
  • Japanese: “ブカレスト”
  • Japanese: “ブクレシティ”
  • Japanese: “ブクレシュチ”
  • Japanese: “ブクレシュティ”
  • Javanese: “Bukares”
  • Javanese: “Bukarès”
  • Kabyle: “Bukarest”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bukarest”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಕುರೆಶ್ತಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯೂಖರೆಸ್ಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Buxarest”
  • Kashubian: “Bùkareszt”
  • Kazakh: “Бухарест”
  • Kirghiz: “Бухарест”
  • Komi: “Бухарест”
  • Korean: “부가레스트”
  • Korean: “부꾸레슈띠”
  • Korean: “부카레스트”
  • Korean: “부쿠레슈티”
  • Korean: “부크레슈티”
  • Kotava: “București”
  • Kurdish: “Bûkareşt”
  • Kurdish: “Bûkareșt”
  • Ladino: “Bucureshti”
  • Ladino: “Bukureshti”
  • Latin: “Bucaresta”
  • Latin: “Bucarestum”
  • Latin: “Bucurestii”
  • Latin: “Hilariopolis”
  • Latvian: “Bucharest”
  • Latvian: “Bucureşti”
  • Latvian: “Bukareste”
  • Latvian: “Bukuresti”
  • Ligurian: “Bucarest”
  • Limburgan: “Boekares”
  • Limburgan: “Boekarest”
  • Lingala: “Bukaresti”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bucuresti”
  • Literary Chinese: “布加勒斯特”
  • Lithuanian: “Bukareštas”
  • Livvi: “Buharestu”
  • Lombard: “Bucarest”
  • Lombard: “Bùcarest”
  • Low German: “Boekarest”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bukarest”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bukarest”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bucureshci”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bucureshti”
  • Macedonian: “Букурешт”
  • Malagasy: “Bucharest”
  • Malay: “Bucharest”
  • Malay: “Bukarest”
  • Malayalam: “Bucharest”
  • Malayalam: “ബുക്കാറെസ്റ്റ്”
  • Malayalam: “ബുച്ചാറെസ്റ്റ്”
  • Maltese: “Bukarest”
  • Manx: “Bucharest”
  • Manx: “Bucuresti”
  • Manx: “Bucureşti”
  • Manx: “București”
  • Maori: “Bucharest”
  • Marathi: “बुखारेस्ट”
  • Mazanderani: “بخارست”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bucharest”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bucharest”
  • Minangkabau: “Bukares”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუქარესტი”
  • Moksha: “Букурэшт”
  • Mongolian: “Бухарест”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوخاريست”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوكاريست”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߎߞߊߙߍߛߕ”
  • N'Ko: “ߔߊ߬ߙߌ߬ ߘߋ߬ߣߍ߲”
  • Narom: “Bucarest”
  • Nauru: “Bucuresti”
  • Navajo: “Chéchʼiltó”
  • Neapolitan: “Bucarest”
  • Nepali: “बुखारेस्ट”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bukarest”
  • Northern Luri: “بخارست”
  • Northern Sami: “București”
  • Northern Sami: “Bukarest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bucharest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bucuresti”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bucureşti”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “București”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukarest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukaresti”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukuresti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bucharest”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bucuresti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bucureşti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “București”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bukarest”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bukuresti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bukureşti”
  • Norwegian: “Bucureşti”
  • Norwegian: “București”
  • Novial: “Bukareshti”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bucarèst”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ġefēaburg”
  • Ossetian: “Бухарест”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਖ਼ਾਰੈਸਟ”
  • Papiamento: “Bucuresti”
  • Persian: “بخارست”
  • Piemontese: “Bùcarest”
  • Polish: “Bukareszt”
  • Portuguese: “Bucareste”
  • Portuguese: “Bucuresti”
  • Portuguese: “Bucureşti”
  • Pushto: “بخارست”
  • Quechua: “Bukuresti”
  • Romanian: “Bucarest”
  • Romanian: “Bucharest”
  • Romanian: “Bucuresci”
  • Romanian: “Bucureşti”
  • Romanian: “București”
  • Romanian: “Bucureștii”
  • Romanian: “Bucureștiul”
  • Romanian: “Bukarest”
  • Romanian: “Micul Paris”
  • Romanian: “Municipiul București”
  • Romansh: “Bucarest”
  • Romansh: “Bucaresta”
  • Romansh: “Bucuresti”
  • Romansh: “Bucureşti”
  • Romansh: “București”
  • Romansh: “Bukarest”
  • Russian: “Букурешти”
  • Russian: “Бухарест”
  • Rusyn: “Букурешт”
  • Sakizaya: “Pu-cya-le-s-te”
  • Samogitian: “Bukarėštos”
  • Sardinian: “Bucarest”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bukarest”
  • Scots: “Bucharest”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bucharest”
  • Serbian: “Bukarest”
  • Serbian: “Букурешт”
  • Serbian: “Град Букурешт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bukurešt”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Букурешт”
  • Sicilian: “Bucarest”
  • Silesian: “Bukarešt”
  • Silesian: “Bukareszt”
  • Sindhi: “بخاريسٽ”
  • Sinhala: “බුකාරෙස්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Bucureşti”
  • Slovak: “Bukurešť”
  • Slovenian: “Bucharest”
  • Slovenian: “București”
  • Slovenian: “Bukarešta”
  • Somali: “Buqarest”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوخارست”
  • Southern Sotho: “Bucharest”
  • Spanish: “Bucarest”
  • Spanish: “Bucharest”
  • Spanish: “Bucuresti”
  • Spanish: “Bucureşti”
  • Spanish: “București”
  • Spanish: “París del Este”
  • Spanish: “Pequeño París”
  • Swahili: “Bucharest”
  • Swahili: “Bukarest”
  • Swedish: “Bucharest”
  • Swedish: “Bucuresti”
  • Swedish: “Bucureşti”
  • Swedish: “București”
  • Swedish: “Bukarest”
  • Swedish: “Bukharest”
  • Swiss German: “Bukarest”
  • Tagalog: “Bucharest”
  • Tagalog: “Bukarest”
  • Tajik: “Бухарест”
  • Talysh: “Buxarest”
  • Tamil: “புக்கரெஸ்ட்”
  • Tamil: “புக்காரெஸ்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Бухарест”
  • Tatar: “Бүкрәш - Румыния (Кырым) татарлары телендә”
  • Tatar: “Бүкрәш”
  • Telugu: “బుకారెస్ట్”
  • Telugu: “బుఖారెస్ట్”
  • Tetum: “Bukareste”
  • Thai: “Bucharest”
  • Thai: “บูคาเรสต์”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་ཁ་རེ་སིད།”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་ཁ་རེ་སིད”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bucharest”
  • Tok Pisin: “Busares”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bukarest”
  • Turkish: “Bükreş, Romanya”
  • Turkish: “Bükreş”
  • Turkish: “Doğunun Paris’i”
  • Turkish: “Küçük Paris”
  • Turkmen: “Buharest”
  • Twi: “Bukarest”
  • Tyap: “București”
  • Tyap: “Bukha̱ret”
  • Udmurt: “Бухарест”
  • Uighur: “Buxarést”
  • Uighur: “بۇخارېست”
  • Ukrainian: “Букарешт”
  • Ukrainian: “Букурешті”
  • Ukrainian: “Бухарест”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bukarest”
  • Urdu: “بخارسٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Buharest”
  • Uzbek: “Bukarest”
  • Uzbek: “Buxarest”
  • Venetian: “Bucarest”
  • Venetian: “Bùcarest”
  • Veps: “Buharest”
  • Vietnamese: “Bucharest”
  • Vietnamese: “Bucuresti”
  • Vietnamese: “Bucureşti”
  • Vlaams: “Boekarest”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bukureshta”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bukureshti”
  • Volapük: “Bucharest”
  • Volapük: “Bucureşti”
  • Volapük: “București”
  • Võro: “Bukarest”
  • Walloon: “Bucaresse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bucharest”
  • Welsh: “Bucarest”
  • Welsh: “Bucharest”
  • Welsh: “Bucureşti”
  • Welsh: “Bwcarést”
  • Welsh: “Bwcharest”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուխարեստ”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուքրէշ”
  • Western Frisian: “Boekarest”
  • Western Frisian: “Bûkarest”
  • Western Panjabi: “بخارسٹ”
  • Wolof: “Bukarest”
  • Wu Chinese: “布加勒斯特”
  • Yakut: “Бухарест”
  • Yiddish: “בוקארעסט”
  • Yiddish: “בוקארעשט”
  • Yiddish: “בוקאַרעשט”
  • Yoruba: “Bucharest”
  • Yue Chinese: “布加勒斯特”
  • Zulu: “i-Bucharest”
  • “Bucarest”
  • “Bucureshci”
  • “Bukarest”
  • “Bukarėštos”
  • “Букурешть”

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