Welcome to my webpage. First of all, I have no doubts that you heard about my country, either from famous athlets, such as Nadia Comaneci, Ilie Nastase, Ion Tiriac, Gheorghe Hagi or from the legends about Dracula, but there is more to it and I would like to share with you this information. If you want to learn more, just click on the links and you will be redirected to a webpage with detailed data.       

ROMANIA is a located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.

At 238,391 square kilometers (92,043 sq mi), Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with 21.5 million people. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, the sixth largest city in the EU with about two million people.


With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the 1989 Revolution, Romania started a series of political and economic reforms. After a decade of post-revolution economic problems, Romania made economic reforms and joined the European Union on 1 January 2007. Romania is now an upper-middle income country with high human development, although within the European Union, Romania's income level remains one of the lowest.

Romania also joined NATO on 29 March 2004, and is also a member of the Latin Union, of the Francophonie, of the OSCE and of the United Nations, as well as an associate member of the CPLP. Today, Romania is a unitary semi-presidential republic.

With a surface area of 238,391 square kilometres (92,043 sq mi), Romania is the largest country in southeastern Europe and the twelfth-largest in Europe. It lies between latitudes 43? and 49? N, and longitudes 20? and 30? E. Romania's terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountainous, hilly and lowland territories. The Carpathian Mountains dominate the centre of Romania, with 14 mountain ranges reaching above 2,000 m/6,600 ft. A large part of Romania's border with Serbia and Bulgaria is formed by the Danube River. Prut River, one of its major tributaries, forms the border with the Republic of Moldova. The Danube flows into the Black Sea within Romania's territory forming the Danube Delta, the second largest and the best preserved delta in Europe, and a biosphere reserve and a biodiversity World Heritage Site.     Romania is divided into 41 counties and the municipality of Bucharest, with an estimated population of roughlly 22 millions inhabitants. The official language of Romania is Romanian, an Eastern Romance language of Latin origin, related to Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.

The Ministry of  Interior Affairs (MAI) of Romania is one of the fifteen ministries of the Government of Romania, and most likelly the most important state body. Under its command are the National Police, the Border Police, the Gendarmery, the Fire Department, just to mention some of the main agencies. 

(source: WIKIPEDIA)