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General Information
Area: 238,391 sq km (92,043 sq miles).
Population: 22,430,000 (2001).
Population Density: 94.1 per sq km.
Capital: Bucharest. Population: 2,027,512 (2000).
GEOGRAPHY: Romania is bordered to the north and east by Moldova and Ukraine, the southeast by the Black Sea, the south by Bulgaria, the southwest by Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and in the west by Hungary. The country is divided into four geographical areas. Transylvania (a belt of Alpine massifs and forests) and Moldavia compose the northern half of the country, which is divided down the middle by the north–south strip of the Carpathian Mountains. South of the east–west line of the Carpathians lies the flat Danube plain of Walachia with the capital Bucharest, its border with Bulgaria being defined by the course of the Danube. Romania’s coastline is along the Black Sea, incorporating the port of Constanta and the Danube Delta.
Government: Democratic Republic since 1991. Head of State: President Ion Iliescu since 2000. Head of Government: Prime Minister Adrian Nastase since 2000.
Language: Romanian is the official language. Some Hungarian and German are spoken in border areas, while mainly French and some English are spoken by those connected with the tourist industry.
Religion: Eighty-three per cent Romanian Orthodox, with Roman Catholic, Reformed/Lutheran, Unitarian, Muslim and Jewish minorities.
Time: GMT + 2 (GMT + 3 from last Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in September).
Electricity: 220 volts AC, 50Hz. Plugs are of the two-pin type.
Communications:
Telephone
IDD is available. Country code: 40. Outgoing international code: 00. Public telephones are widely available and can be used for direct international calls. Hotels often impose a high service charge for long-distance calls, but usually do not charge for local calls.
Mobile telephone
GSM 900/1800 networks. Network operators include Cosmorom (website: www.cosmorom.com), Orange (website: www.mobil-rom.com) and Connex (website: www.connex.ro).
Internet
Kappa and PC-Net are two of the largest of the 250 ISPs. The former has open-air terminals at Strada Paulescu Nicolae 9, Bucharest, while the latter is at Strada Calderon Jean Louis 1-5, Bucharest. Sweet Internet Cafe, Strada Maria Rosetti 7-9, Bucharest (tel: (1) 212 4111) has 24-hour access, as do a couple others of Bucharest's dozen or so Internet cafes.
Fax
Facilities are available at most large hotels.
Telegram
Facilities at post offices and a night telegram service (2000-0700) are available in Bucharest. Telegrams are an inexpensive and efficient form of international communication from Romania.
Post
Airmail to Western Europe takes one week. Post offices are open daily, including Saturday mornings.
Press
English newspapers and publications include Nine O'Clock, Bucharest Business Week and Romanian Economic Daily. There are a great number of daily and weekly newspapers published in Romanian, Hungarian and German.
BBC World Service and Voice of America frequencies: From time to time these change.
BBC (website: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice):
Voice of America (website: www.voa.gov):
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