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Romania (dated: Rumania, Roumania; Romanian: România, ) is a country located
in South-East Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower
Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black
Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory. It
shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the
Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
Romania is a semi-presidential unitary state. As a nation-state, the country
was formed by the merging of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 and it gained
recognition of its independence in 1878. Later, in 1918, they were joined by
Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia. At the end of World War II, parts of
its territories (roughly the present day Moldova) were occupied by USSR and
Romania became a member of the Warsaw Pact. With the fall of the Iron
Curtain in 1989, Romania started a series of political and economic reforms
that allowed for Romania to join the European Union on January 1, 2007.
Romania has the 9th largest territory and the 7th largest population (with
22 million people ) among the European Union member states. Its capital
and largest city is Bucharest (Romanian: ), the 6th largest city in the EU
with almost 2.2 million people. In 2007, Sibiu, a large city in
Transylvania, was chosen as a European Capital of Culture. Romania also
joined NATO on March 29, 2004, and is also a member of the Latin Union, of
the Francophonie and of OSCE.
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