Romania

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PROFILE
  • Area: 238,391 sq. km (92,043 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 21,599,736 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: -0.32% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 75.1 years (2016)
  • Languages: Romanian (official) 85.4%, Hungarian 6.3%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.2%
  • Religions: Eastern Orthodox 81.9%, Protestant 6.4%, Roman Catholic 4.3%, other (includes Muslim) 0.9%, none or atheist 0.2%, unspecified 6.3%
  • Alternate names: Republica Populară Romînă, Republica Socialistă România, România, Romanica, Romaniei, Romanya, Romînia, Roumania, Roumanie, Rumania, Rumanian People’s Republic, Rumänien, Rumunija, Rumunsko, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Republic of Rumania
  • Government type: semi-presidential republic
  • Leaders: chief of state: President Klaus Werner IOHANNIS; head of government: Prime Minister Dacian CIOLOS
  • Capital: Bucharest
  • Administrative divisions: 41 counties and 1 municipality
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $20,800 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: machinery and equipment, other manufactured goods, agricultural products and foodstuffs, metals and metal products, chemicals, minerals and fuels, raw materials
  • Imports: machinery and equipment, other manufactured goods, chemicals, agricultural products and foodstuffs, fuels and minerals, metals and metal products, raw materials
  • Currency: leu (RON)
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