Location: Black Sea, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, and Moldova
Population: 22,355,551 as of 2004.
Capital: Bucharest
Political Leaders:
Prime Minister: Adrian Năstase
President: Ion Iliescu
Language:
Official Language: Romanian (also spelled Rumanian)
Language Percentages: Chinese, Mandarin 14.37%, Hindi 6.02%, English 5.61%, Spanish 5.59%, Bengali 3.4%, Portuguese 2.63%, Russian 2.75%, Japanese 2.06%, German, Standard 1.64%, Korean 1.28%, French 1.27% as of 2000
Currency: Leu
1.00 Leu = $ 0.00002994 US dollars as of 04/16/04
Religion:
Eastern Orthodox 87%, Protestant 6.8%, Catholic 5.6%, Other (mostly Muslim) 0.4%, unaffiliated 0.2% as of 2002
Holidays:
January 1 New Year's Holiday, January 2 New Year's Holiday, January 6 Epiphany, March 1 Martzisor, May 1 Labor Day, May 3 – 6 Easter, December 1 National Day, December 25 Christmas Day 1, December 26 Christmas - Day 2
