EUROPE

Romania

Romania wraps around the Carpathian Mountains in southeastern Europe, home to medieval Transylvania, Dracula's castle legend, and the Danube's vast wildlife-rich delta on the Black Sea.

WHAT THE FLAG MEANS ◢

A vertical tricolour of blue, yellow and red. The colours are the historic hues of the Romanian principalities; no single official meaning is fixed, though popular tradition links them to liberty, justice and fraternity.

Romania FACTS ◢

Capital	Bucharest
Continent	Europe
Population	19,020,271 (2025)
Area	238,397 km²
Population density	80/km²
Currency	Romanian leu (RON)
Official language	Romanian
Calling code	+40
Internet TLD	.ro
Time zone	UTC+02:00
Drives on the	Right
ISO codes	RO / ROU

DID YOU KNOW? ◢

Bran Castle in Transylvania is popularly linked to the Dracula legend inspired by Vlad the Impaler.
The Danube Delta, where Europe's second-longest river meets the Black Sea, is one of the continent's richest wildlife havens.
The Carpathian Mountains shelter some of Europe's largest populations of brown bears, wolves and lynx.
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is one of the largest and heaviest administrative buildings on Earth.
Romanian is a Romance language, closely related to Italian and Spanish, surrounded by Slavic-speaking neighbours.