Official name
Romania
Name in local language
România (ro)
Continent
Europe
Subcontinent
European Union
Population (ranking: 64e )
19,524,125 inhabitants (2018)
Population growth
-0.61 % / year
Area
238,391 km²
Density
81.90 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 49e )239.553 billions $USD (2018)
GDP/capita (ranking )
12,301 $USD (2018)
GDP growth
4.10 % / year (2018)
Life expectancy (ranking )
75.90 years (2018)
Birth rate
9.00 ‰ (2016)
Fertility rate
1.34 children / woman (2016)
Death rate (ranking )
11.90 ‰ (2016)
Infant mortality rate (ranking )
9.60 ‰ (2016)
Literacy rate
98.77 % (2015)
Official languages
Romanian (french, german, hungarian spoken)
Currency
Romanian Leu (RON)
HDI (ranking: 77e )0.816 / 1 (2018)
EPI (ranking )64.78 (2018)
Government
Unitary semi-presidential republic
Head of State
President Klaus Iohannis
National Day
1st December (Great Union in 1918)
ISO Codes RO, ROU
Demonym
Romanian
Tourists (ranking )
2,760,000 people (2017)
Strong decline of the population since 20 years
Romania is an Eastern European state, the 7th most populous country in the European Union and the 9th largest in terms of area. It borders Hungary to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the north and east, Bulgaria to the south and Serbia to the southwest.
Iron Gates on the Danube River, Romania. Photo: Cornelius Bechtler Bucegi Mountains, Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Photo: Wikipedia Bucharest, capital city of Romania. Photo: Ciprian Urban areas (2014)
Urban areas
Population
Bucharest
2,395,515 inhabitants
Iași
464,711 inhabitants
Constanța
419,968 inhabitants
Brașov
398,220 inhabitants
Cluj-Napoca
375,908 inhabitants
Timișoara
357,513 inhabitants
Craiova
326,498 inhabitants
Galați
323,318 inhabitants
Ploiești
295,314 inhabitants
Oradea
239,243 inhabitants
Bacău
222,854 inhabitants
Brăila
219,919 inhabitants
Pitești
215,577 inhabitants
Sibiu
208,778 inhabitants
Arad
204,940 inhabitants
Baia Mare
182,269 inhabitants
Buzău
161,311 inhabitants
Botoșani
144,389 inhabitants
Piatra Neamț
131,242 inhabitants
Drobeta-Turnu Severin
127,753 inhabitants
Focșani
125,609 inhabitants
Alba Iulia
109,429 inhabitants
Bistrița
108,488 inhabitants
Administrative divisions
Departments (Județe)
Population
Area
Alba
381,538 inhabitants
6,242 km²
Arad
474,341 inhabitants
7,754 km²
Argeș
647,264 inhabitants
6,862 km²
Bacău
747,031 inhabitants
6,621 km²
Bihor
619,441 inhabitants
7,544 km²
Bistrița-Năsăud
329,076 inhabitants
5,355 km²
Botoșani
456,941 inhabitants
4,986 km²
Brăila
357,752 inhabitants
4,766 km²
Brașov
630,126 inhabitants
5,363 km²
Bucarest (Municipalité)
2,100,519 inhabitants
228 km²
Buzău
480,552 inhabitants
6,103 km²
Călărași
318,097 inhabitants
5,088 km²
Caraș-Severin
329,286 inhabitants
8,514 km²
Cluj
721,136 inhabitants
6,674 km²
Constanța
769,666 inhabitants
7,071 km²
Covasna
228,970 inhabitants
3,710 km²
Dâmbovița
529,058 inhabitants
4,054 km²
Dolj
701,461 inhabitants
7,414 km²
Galați
632,452 inhabitants
4,466 km²
Giurgiu
277,239 inhabitants
3,526 km²
Gorj
367,262 inhabitants
5,602 km²
Harghita
333,921 inhabitants
6,639 km²
Hunedoara
471,613 inhabitants
7,063 km²
Ialomița
294,410 inhabitants
4,453 km²
Iași
912,774 inhabitants
5,476 km²
See also
