Bucharest
Bucharest is Romania's capital and largest city, as well as the most important industrial and commercial center of the country. With more than 2.1 million inhabitants in the urban area, Bucharest is one of the largest cities in Southeastern Europe.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
University of Bucharest
University
The University of Bucharest, commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public… Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Romanian Athenaeum
Arts center
The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old Court Princely Palace
Curtea Veche was built as a palace or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in 1459. Photo: Stefan Jurca, CC BY-SA 2.0.National Opera
Theater
The Romanian National Opera, Bucharest is one of the four national opera and ballet companies of Romania. Photo: Britchi Mirela, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City
- Description: capital and largest city of Romania
- Categories: municipiu of Romania, capital, first-level administrative country subdivision, big city, million city, college town and locality
- Location: Wallachian Plain, Muntenia, Romania, Balkans, Europe
Localities in the Area
Cotroceni
Suburb
Cotroceni is a neighbourhood in western Bucharest, Romania located around the Cotroceni hill, in Bucharest's Sector 5.
Centrul Civic
Suburb
Centrul Civic is a district in central Bucharest, Romania, which was completely rebuilt in the… Photo: VictorCozmei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dealul Mitropoliei
Locality
Dealul Mitropoliei, also called Dealul Patriarhiei, is a small hill in Bucharest, Romania and an important historic, cultural, architectural, religious and touristic point in the national capital. Photo: Pixi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bucharest
Latitude
44.4361° or 44° 26' 10" northLongitude
26.1027° or 26° 6' 10" eastPopulation
1,880,000Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)IATA airport code
BUHUnited Nations Location Code
RO BUHOpen Location Code
8GP8C4P3+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 96209423GeoNames ID
683506Also Known As
- Achinese: Bucharèst
- Achinese: Bukares
- Adyghe; Adygei: Бухарест
- Afar: Buxarest
- Afrikaans: Boekarest
- Afrikaans: Bucureşti
- Akan: Bukarest
- Albanian: Bucharest
- Albanian: Bukuresht
- Albanian: Bukureshti
- Amharic: ቡካረስት
- Amharic: ቡካሬስት
- Arabic: Bucharest
- Arabic: بوخارست
- Arabic: بوخاريست
- Aragonese: Bucarest
- Aragonese: Bucureşti
- Aragonese: București
- Armenian: Բուխարեստ
- Armenian: Պուխարեսթ
- Asturian; Bable: Bucarest
- Avaric: București
- Avaric: Бухарест
- Aymara: Bukuresti
- Azerbaijani: Buxarest
- Azerbaijani: Buxarest şəhəri
- Balinese: Bukarés
- Bashkir: Бухарест
- Basque: Bucarest
- Basque: Bukarest
- Belarusian: Бухарэст
- Belarusian: Сталіца Румыніі
- Bengali: বুখারেস্ট
- 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 Bicolano: 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 Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Bukureşti
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Bükreş
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Bükreș
- Croatian: București
- Croatian: Bukurešt
- Czech: Bucharest
- Czech: Bucuresti
- Czech: Bucureşti
- Czech: Bukurešť
- Danish: Bucuresti
- Danish: Bucureşti
- Danish: Bukarest
- Dimli: Bukreș
- Dimli: Bükreş
- Dutch: Boekarest
- Dutch: Bucharest
- Dutch: Bucuresti
- Dutch: Bucureşti
- Dutch: București
- Dutch: Bukarest
- Eastern Mari: Бухарест
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: بوخارست
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: بوخاريست
- English: Bucharest, Romania
- English: Bucuresti
- English: Bucureşti
- English: București
- English: Little Paris
- English: Paris of the East
- English: Буцуреșти
- 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
- Fijian Hindustani: Bucharest
- Finnish: Bucharest
- Finnish: Bucuresti
- Finnish: Bucureşti
- Finnish: București
- Finnish: Bukarest
- Franco-Provençal: Bucarèst
- French: Bucarest
- French: Bucharest
- French: Bucureşti
- French: Capitale de la Roumanie
- French: Municipalité de Bucarest
- Frisian: Boekarest
- Frisian: Bûkarest
- Gaelic (Scots): Bucharest
- Gagauz: Bukureş
- Gagauz: Bukureș
- Gallegan: Bucarest
- Georgian: ბუქარესტი
- Georgian: ევროპული მარშრუტი E60
- German: Bucharest
- German: Bucuresti
- German: București
- German: Bukarest
- German: RO-B
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌿𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌴𐍃𐍄𐍃
- Greek: Βουκουρέστι
- Guarani: Mbukaréte
- Gujarati: બુકારેસ્ટ
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Boukarès
- Hakka Chinese: Bucharest
- Hausa: Bucharest
- Hausa: Bukarest
- Hebrew: בוקורשטי
- Hebrew: בוקרסט
- Hebrew: בוקרשט
- Hindi: बुकारेस्ट
- Hindi: बुखारेस्ट
- Hungarian: Bucuresti
- Hungarian: București
- Hungarian: Bukarest
- Icelandic: Búkarest
- Ido: Bucarest
- Indonesian: Bucharest
- Indonesian: Bucuresti
- Indonesian: Bucureşti
- Indonesian: Bukares
- Indonesian: Bukarest
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Bucarest
- Interlingue: Bucarest
- 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
- 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
- Kurdish: Bûkareşt
- Kurdish: Bûkareșt
- Ladino: Bucureshti
- Ladino: Bukureshti
- Latin: Bucaresta
- Latin: Bucarestum
- Latin: Bucurestii
- Latin: Hilariopolis
- Latvian: Bucharest
- Latvian: Bucureşti
- Latvian: Bukareste
- Latvian: Bukuresti
- Letzeburgesch: Bukarest
- Ligurian: Bucarest
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Boekares
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Boekarest
- Lingala: Bukaresti
- Lithuanian: Bukareštas
- Livvi: Buharestu
- Lombard: Bucarest
- Lombard: Bùcarest
- Macedo Romanian: Bucureshci
- Macedo Romanian: Bucureshti
- Macedonian: Букурешт
- Malagasy: Bucharest
- Malay (generic): Bucharest
- Malay (generic): Bukarest
- Malayalam: Bucharest
- Malayalam: ബുക്കാറെസ്റ്റ്
- Malayalam: ബുച്ചാറെസ്റ്റ്
- Maltese: Bukarest
- Manx: Bucharest
- Manx: Bucureşti
- Maori: Bucharest
- Marathi: बुखारेस्ट
- Mazanderani: بخارست
- Min Dong Chinese: Bucharest
- Min Nan Chinese: Bucharest
- Mingrelian: ბუქარესტი
- Moldavian: Букурешть
- Mongolian: Бухарест
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: بوكاريست
- Narom: Bucarest
- Nauru: Bucuresti
- Navajo: Chéchʼiltó
- Neapolitan: Bucarest
- Nepali: बुखारेस्ट
- Northern Frisian: Bukarest
- Northern Luri: بخارست
- Northern Sami: București
- Norwegian: Bucureşti
- Norwegian: București
- 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
- Novial: Bukareshti
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Bucarèst
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Бухарест
- Panjabi: ਬੁਖ਼ਾਰੈਸਟ
- Papiamento: Bucuresti
- Persian: بخارست
- Piemontese: Bùcarest
- Polish: Bukareszt
- Portuguese: Bucareste
- Portuguese: Bucuresti
- Portuguese: Bucureşti
- Pushto: بخارست
- Quechua: Bukuresti
- Raeto-Romance: Bucarest
- Raeto-Romance: Bucaresta
- Raeto-Romance: Bucuresti
- Raeto-Romance: Bucureşti
- Raeto-Romance: București
- Raeto-Romance: Bukarest
- Romanian: Bucharest
- Romanian: Bucureşti
- Romanian: București
- Romanian: Bucureștiul
- Romanian: Bukarest
- Romanian: Micul Paris
- Romanian: Municipiul București
- Russian: Букурешти
- Russian: Бухарест
- Sardinian: Bucarest
- Saterfriesisch: Bukarest
- Schwyzerdütsch: Bukarest
- Scots: Bucharest
- Serbian: Bukarest
- Serbian: Букурешт
- Serbian: Град Букурешт
- Serbo-Croatian: Bukurešt
- Serbo-Croatian: Букурешт
- Sicilian: Bucarest
- Sinhalese: බුකාරෙස්ට්
- Slovak: Bucureşti
- Slovak: Bukurešť
- Slovenian: Bucharest
- Slovenian: București
- Slovenian: Bukarešta
- Somali: Buqarest
- Sorbian, Lower: Bukarest
- Sorbian, Upper: Bukarest
- Sotho, Southern: Bucharest
- South Azerbaijani: بوخارست
- Spanish: Bucarest
- Spanish: Bucharest
- Spanish: Bucuresti
- Spanish: Bucureşti
- Spanish: București
- Spanish: París del Este
- Spanish: Pequeño París
- Swahili (generic): Bucharest
- Swahili (generic): Bukarest
- Swedish: Bucharest
- Swedish: Bucuresti
- Swedish: Bucureşti
- Swedish: București
- Swedish: Bukarest
- Swedish: Bukharest
- Tagalog: Bucharest
- Tagalog: Bukarest
- Tajik: Бухарест
- 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
- Turkish: Bükreș
- Turkmen: Buharest
- Twi: Bucarest
- Udmurt: Бухарест
- Uighur: Buxarést
- Uighur: بۇخارېست
- Ukrainian: Букарешт
- Ukrainian: Букурешті
- Ukrainian: Бухарест
- Urdu: بخارسٹ
- Uzbek: Buharest
- Uzbek: Bukarest
- Uzbek: Buxarest
- Venetian: Bucarest
- Venetian: Bùcarest
- Veps: Buharest
- Vietnamese: Bucharest
- Vietnamese: Bucureşti
- Vlax Romani: Bukureshta
- Vlax Romani: Bukureshti
- Volapük: Bucharest
- Volapük: Bucureşti
- Volapük: București
- Walloon: Bucaresse
- Waray (Philippines): Bucharest
- Welsh: Bucarest
- Welsh: Bucharest
- Welsh: Bucureşti
- Welsh: Bwcarést
- Welsh: Bwcharest
- Western Panjabi: بخارسٹ
- Wolof: Bukarest
- Wu Chinese: 布加勒斯特
- Yakut: Бухарест
- Yiddish: בוקאַרעשט
- Yiddish: בוקארעסט
- Yiddish: בוקארעשט
- Yoruba: Bucharest
- Yue Chinese: 布加勒斯特
- Bukarešt
- Bukarėštos
- Bukreş
- Պուխարեստ
- ߓߎߞߊߙߍߛߕ
- ߔߊ߬ߙߌ߬ ߘߋ߬ߣߍ߲
Other Places Named Bucharest
- BucharestStreet in Cavite, Calabarzon
In the Area
Localities
- Bucharest Old TownSuburb
- Old TownSuburb
- Old TownSuburb
- Cartierul ArmenescSuburb
Landmarks
- Caragialiana - Căruța cu PaiațeWork of art
- Kilometrul 0 al DemocrațieiWork of art
- Ion Luca CaragialeWork of art
- Universitate metro stationMetro station
Popular Destinations in Wallachian Plain
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