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Romania is a country of great natural beauty and diversity and a rich cultural heritage, including a variety of ethnic, linguistic, and confessional groups.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

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is Romania's capital and largest city. 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 .

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, Kolozsvár or Klausenburg is the capital of Cluj county and the unofficial capital of the historical region of . The city, with about 320,000 people, is very pleasant, and it is a great experience for those who want to see urban Transylvanian life at its best.

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is a university city and industrial centre in western Romania, with a multicultural heritage due to its location in the region and a history of ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Transylvania and Muntenia.

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is the largest region of Romania and probably the best known one. When you visit you dive into a mix of cultures, nature and history.

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is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia. It is situated between the , the and , and the Olt River to the west.

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is a geographical and historical region located in the or Carpathian Basin that straddles and . It is divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania; the western part of is in northeastern ; and a small northern part lies within southeastern .

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Dobruja is a region in south-eastern Romania, between the and the Black Sea. It consists of the counties of Constanta and Tulcea.

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is a region in north-eastern Romania, sharing a border with and . It consists of the counties of Suceava, Iași, Vaslui, Galați, Vrancea, Botoșani, Neamț and Bacău.

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is a region of Romania. It consists of the counties of Dolj, Gorj, Vâlcea, Olt and Mehedinţi.

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Maramureş is a region in north-western Romania. The Romanian part of the historical Maramureş is a rather small region consisting of Maramures County and Satu Mare County.

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is a geographical and historical region of Romania named after the and its three tributaries: the Crișul Alb, Crișul Negru, and Crișul Repede.

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is the part of historical now in Romania. It consists of the Suceava county.

Romania

Latitude of center
45.89° or 45° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
25° east
Population
21,500,000
Area
237,500 km² (91,699 miles²)
Elevation
576 metres (1,890 feet)
Capital
Currency
Leu (RON)
Phone code
.ro
Internet domain
40
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425064
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
798549
Wiki­data ID
Q218
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Romania” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Румыниа”
  • Achinese: “Rumania”
  • Adyghe: “Румание”
  • Afrikaans: “Roemenië”
  • Akan: “Romenia”
  • Albanian: “Rumani”
  • Albanian: “Rumania”
  • Amharic: “ሮማንያ”
  • Amharic: “ሮሜኒያ”
  • Amis: “Romania”
  • Angika: “रोमानिया”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية رومانيا”
  • Arabic: “رومانيا”
  • Arabic: “رومانية”
  • Aragonese: “Rumanía”
  • Armenian: “Ռումինիա”
  • Arpitan: “Roumania”
  • Arpitan: “Roumanie”
  • Assamese: “ৰোমানিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Rumanía”
  • Atayal: “Romania”
  • Avaric: “Румыния”
  • Awadhi: “रोमानिया”
  • Aymara: “Rumanya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rumıniya”
  • Balinese: “Romania”
  • Bambara: “Rumani”
  • Bashkir: “Румыния”
  • Basque: “Errumania”
  • Bavarian: “Rumänien”
  • Belarusian: “Румынія”
  • Bengali: “রুমানিয়া”
  • Bengali: “রোমানিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Ruméni”
  • Bhojpuri: “रोमानिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “রোমানিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Romania”
  • Bosnian: “Rumunija”
  • Breton: “Roumania”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Румъния”
  • Bulgarian: “Румъния”
  • Burmese: “ရိုမေးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “ရိုမေးနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Romania”
  • Cebuano: “Romania”
  • Cebuano: “Rumanya”
  • Central Bikol: “Romanya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆمانیا”
  • Chamorro: “Rumania”
  • Chavacano: “Rumanía”
  • Chechen: “Румыни”
  • Cherokee: “ᎶᎹᏂᏯ”
  • Chinese: “Luómăníyà”
  • Chinese: “Romania”
  • Chinese: “罗马尼亚 / 羅馬尼亞”
  • Chinese: “罗马尼亚”
  • Chinese: “羅馬尼亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Роумꙑнїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Румыни”
  • Cornish: “Romani”
  • Cornish: “Roumani”
  • Corsican: “Romania”
  • Corsican: “Rumenia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Romaniya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Rumaniye”
  • Croatian: “Rumunjska”
  • Czech: “Rumunsko”
  • Dagbani: “Romania”
  • Danish: “Rumænien”
  • Dhivehi: “ރުމޭނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Romanya”
  • Dotyali: “रोमानिया”
  • Dutch: “Roemenie”
  • Dutch: “Roemenië”
  • Dzongkha: “རོ་མ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “རོ་མེ་ནི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Румыний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رومانيا”
  • Erzya: “Румыния Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Rumanio”
  • Esperanto: “Rumanujo”
  • Estonian: “Rumeenia”
  • Ewe: “Romania nutome”
  • Ewe: “Romania”
  • Extremaduran: “Rumania”
  • Extremaduran: “Rumanía”
  • Faroese: “Rumenia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Romania”
  • Finnish: “Romania”
  • French: “la Roumanie”
  • French: “Roum.”
  • French: “Roumanie”
  • Friulian: “Romanie”
  • Fulah: “Romaniya”
  • Fulah: “Rumanii”
  • Gagauz: “Romıniya”
  • Galician: “Romanía”
  • Ganda: “Lomaniya”
  • Ganda: “Romania”
  • Georgian: “რუმინეთი”
  • German: “Rumänien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Romania”
  • Gilaki: “رۊمانيا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Romania”
  • Goan Konkani: “रोमेनिया”
  • Gothic: “𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ρουμανία”
  • Guarani: “Rrumaña”
  • Guarani: “Rrumáña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Roumani”
  • Gujarati: “રોમાનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Woumani”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Romania”
  • Hausa: “Romainiya”
  • Hausa: “Romaniya”
  • Hawaiian: “Lomānia”
  • Hawaiian: “Romānia”
  • Hebrew: “רומניה”
  • Hindi: “रोमानिया”
  • Hungarian: “Romania”
  • Hungarian: “Románia”
  • Icelandic: “Rúmenía”
  • Ido: “Rumania”
  • Igbo: “Romania”
  • Iloko: “Romania”
  • Inari Sami: “Romania”
  • Indonesian: “Romania”
  • Indonesian: “Rumania”
  • Interlingua: “Romania”
  • Interlingue: “Rumania”
  • Irish: “an Rómáin”
  • Irish: “An Rómáin”
  • Italian: “ro”
  • Italian: “Romania”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Rumienia”
  • Japanese: “ルーマニア”
  • Javanese: “Rumeni”
  • Javanese: “Ruméni”
  • Javanese: “Rumèni”
  • Kabardian: “Румыниэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Rumaanii”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Románia”
  • Kabyle: “Rumanya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Rumænia”
  • Kalmyk: “Румудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ರೊಮಾನಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ರೊಮೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ರೊಮ್ಯಾನಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Rumıniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Румыния”
  • Kashmiri: “رومانِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “رومانیہ”
  • Kashmiri: “रोमानिया”
  • Kashubian: “Rumùńskô”
  • Kazakh: “Румыния”
  • Khmer: “រូម៉ានី”
  • Kikuyu: “Romania”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Romaniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Румыния”
  • Komering: “Romania”
  • Komering: “Rumaniya”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ромыния”
  • Komi: “Румыния”
  • Kongo: “Romania”
  • Korean: “로므니아”
  • Korean: “루마니아”
  • Kotava: “Romania”
  • Kurdish: “Romanya”
  • Kurdish: “ڕۆمانیا”
  • Ladin: “Romania”
  • Ladino: “Rumania”
  • Lak: “Руминия”
  • Lak: “Румыния”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຣູມານີ”
  • Lao: “ໂຣແມເນຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Rumuneja”
  • Latin: “Romania”
  • Latvian: “Rumānija”
  • Lezghian: “Румыния”
  • Ligurian: “Romania”
  • Ligurian: “Romanîa”
  • Limburgan: “Roemenië”
  • Lingala: “Romani”
  • Lingala: “Rumania”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Romania”
  • Literary Chinese: “羅馬尼亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Rumunija”
  • Liv: “Rumāņmō”
  • Livvi: “Rumiinii”
  • Lojban: “romanias”
  • Lojban: “romanis”
  • Lombard: “Rumania”
  • Low German: “Roemenië”
  • Low German: “Rumänien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Rumuńska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Romani”
  • Lule Sami: “Romádna”
  • Lule Sami: “Románna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rumänien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Romãnia”
  • Macedonian: “Романија”
  • Madurese: “Romania”
  • Maithili: “रोमानिया”
  • Malagasy: “Romania”
  • Malagasy: “Roumanie”
  • Malay: “ro”
  • Malay: “Romania”
  • Malay: “România”
  • Malay: “Roumania”
  • Malay: “Rumania”
  • Malay: “رومانيا”
  • Malayalam: “റൊമാനിയ”
  • Maltese: “ir-Rumanija”
  • Maltese: “Rumanija”
  • Manipuri: “ꯔꯣꯃꯥꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Romaain”
  • Manx: “y Romaan”
  • Manx: “y Roomaain”
  • Manx: “Yn Romaan”
  • Maori: “Romeinia”
  • Marathi: “रोमानिया”
  • Marathi: “रोमेनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “رومانی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Romania”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lô-má-nî-a”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Romania”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “România”
  • Minangkabau: “Rumania‘”
  • Minangkabau: “Rumania”
  • Mingrelian: “რუმინეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Roménia”
  • Moksha: “Румыния”
  • Mongolian: “Румын”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “رومانيا”
  • Mossi: “Romania”
  • Narom: “Roumanie”
  • Nauru: “Romainiya”
  • Nauru: “Romania”
  • Navajo: “Tséhonoojí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Rumania”
  • Nepali: “रोमानिया”
  • Nepali: “रोमेनिया”
  • Newari: “रोमानिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Romania”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rumänien”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rumeenien”
  • Northern Luri: “رومانی”
  • Northern Sami: “Romania”
  • Northern Sami: “Románia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Romania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Romania”
  • Norwegian: “Romania”
  • Novial: “Rumania”
  • Obolo: “Romania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Romania”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܪܘܡܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rumǣnia”
  • Oriya: “ରୋମାନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Romaaniyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Румыни”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ရိုမေးနီးယားခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “रोमानिया”
  • Pampanga: “Romania”
  • Pangasinan: “Romaniya”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੁਮਾਨੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੋਮਾਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Romania”
  • Papiamento: “Rumania”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Rumeenie”
  • Persian: “رومانی”
  • Picard: “Roumanie”
  • Piemontese: “Romanìa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Romainya”
  • Polish: “Rumunia”
  • Pontic: “Ρουμανία”
  • Portuguese: “România”
  • Portuguese: “Roménia”
  • Portuguese: “Romênia”
  • Pushto: “رومانيا”
  • Pushto: “رومانیا”
  • Quechua: “Rumania”
  • Quechua: “Rumaniya”
  • Quechua: “Rumanya”
  • Romanian: “ro”
  • Romanian: “Romania”
  • Romanian: “România”
  • Romansh: “Rumenia”
  • Rundi: “Rumaniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Румын”
  • Russia Buriat: “Румыни”
  • Russian: “România”
  • Russian: “Румыния”
  • Rusyn: “Румуньско”
  • Sakizaya: “Romania”
  • Samoan: “Romania”
  • Samogitian: “Romunėjė”
  • Sango: “Rumanïi”
  • Sanskrit: “रोमानिया”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱳᱢᱟᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Romania”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Rumänien”
  • Scots: “Romanie”
  • Scots: “Roumainie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Romàinia”
  • Serbian: “Rumunija”
  • Serbian: “Румунија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rumunija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းရူဝ်ႇမေးၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Romania”
  • Sicilian: “Rumanìa”
  • Silesian: “Růmůńijo”
  • Sindhi: “رومانيا”
  • Sindhi: “رومانيہ”
  • Sinhala: “රුමේනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Romania”
  • Slovak: “Rumunsko”
  • Slovenian: “Romunija”
  • Somali: “Romania”
  • Somali: “Rumaaniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رومانی”
  • Southern Sami: “Rumäänia”
  • Southern Sami: “Rumæænia”
  • Southern Sotho: “Romania”
  • Spanish: “Rumania”
  • Spanish: “Rumanía”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Romenikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵕⵓⵎⴰⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Romania”
  • Swahili: “Romania”
  • Swati: “IRomaniya”
  • Swedish: “Rumänien”
  • Swiss German: “Rumänie”
  • Tachelhit: “Rumanya”
  • Tagalog: “Romania”
  • Tagalog: “Rumanya”
  • Tajik: “Руминия”
  • Talysh: “Rumıniyə”
  • Talysh: “Rumynijə”
  • Tamil: “உருமேனியா”
  • Tamil: “ருமேனியா”
  • Taroko: “Romania”
  • Tatar: “Rumıniä”
  • Tatar: “Румыния”
  • Telugu: “రొమేనియా”
  • Telugu: “రోమేనియా”
  • Tetum: “Roménia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโรมาเนีย”
  • Thai: “โรมาเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “རོ་མ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “རོ་མཱ་ནིཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሮማንያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ሮሜኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Romenia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lomēnia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Rumänien”
  • Tumbuka: “Romania”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “رومانيا”
  • Turkish: “Romanya”
  • Turkmen: “Rumyniýa”
  • Twi: “Romania”
  • Tyap: “ro”
  • Tyap: “Romaniya”
  • Udmurt: “Румыния”
  • Uighur: “Ruminiye”
  • Uighur: “رومىنىيە”
  • Uighur: “رۇمىنىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Ромунія”
  • Ukrainian: “Румунія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rumunska”
  • Urdu: “رومانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ruminiya”
  • Venetian: “Romania”
  • Venetian: “Romanìa”
  • Venetian: “Rumania”
  • Veps: “Romanii”
  • Vietnamese: “Romania”
  • Vietnamese: “România”
  • Vietnamese: “Ru-ma-ni-a (Romania)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ru-ma-ni”
  • Vlaams: “Roemenië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Rumuniya”
  • Volapük: “Rumän”
  • Võro: “Rumeeniä”
  • Walloon: “Roumaneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rumania”
  • Welsh: “Rwmania”
  • Western Armenian: “Ռումանիա”
  • Western Balochi: “رومانیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Roemeenje”
  • Western Frisian: “Roemenië”
  • Western Panjabi: “رومانیا”
  • Wolof: “Romaani”
  • Wolof: “Rumani”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗马尼亚”
  • Xhosa: “Romaniya”
  • Yakut: “Румыния”
  • Yiddish: “ראמעניע”
  • Yiddish: “רומעניע”
  • Yoruba: “Románíà”
  • Yoruba: “Romaniya”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅馬尼亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Roemenië”
  • Zhuang: “Romania”
  • Zulu: “i-Romania”
  • Zulu: “IRomaniya”
  • “ma Lomani”
  • “ma Lominija”
  • “RO”
  • “Romanie”
  • “Romunėjė”
  • “ROU”
  • “Rumanî”
  • “Rumania”
  • “Rumãnii”
  • “Rumeeniä”
  • “Ромыния”
  • “रोमानिया”

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