Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Bucharest
- Region
- Europe, Southeast Europe
- Population
- 19,020,271 (2025)
- Area
- 237,500 km²
- Currency
- Romanian leu (RON)
- Languages
- Romanian, Hungarian, Romany
- Calling code
- +40
- Internet domain
- .ro
- ISO codes
- RO, ROU, 642
- Time zone
- UTC+2:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Romania covers about 237,500 square kilometres. By area it ranks 83rd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Ghana and a little larger than Laos. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine. Its centre lies at about 46° north, 25° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 19 million people live in Romania (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 68th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.23 percent of the world's people. On average there are 80 people to each square kilometre. About 52 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 76 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Romanian, Hungarian, Romany. A person from Romania is called Romanian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Romanian leu (code RON, symbol lei). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 429 billion (2025), which is about US$ 22,538 for each person (2025).
Time
Romania uses one time zone, UTC+2:00 (Europe/Bucharest). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Bucharest | 1,877,155 |
| Iaşi | 378,954 |
| Constanţa | 317,832 |
| Cluj-Napoca | 286,598 |
| Braşov | 253,200 |
| Timişoara | 250,849 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southeast Europe
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.