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General Info
Location: in the South-Eastern part of Europe, having as neighbors Hungary and Yugoslavia in the Western part, Bulgaria in the South, The Republic of Moldavia in the East and Ukraine in the Northern part.
Surface: 238, 391 km², representing 4.8% of Europe’s territory; the 11th state in size from Europe.
Capital: Bucharest, the largest city of the country
Local hour
Summer hour, GMT+3 ore (between the last Sunday from March and the last Sunday from October);
Winter hour, GMT + 2 ore.
Population: 21,700,000 inhabitants;
Minorities: Hungarians: 6.6%, Romany 2.5%, Germans (Saxons) 0.3% but aslo Ukrainians, Russians-Lippovans, Turks, Tartars, Serbians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Jews, Poles, Italians, Armenians
Official language: Romanian
In some regions Hungarian and German are still spoken; in these areas the name of the cities and other inscriptions for public use are bilingual (Romanian and Hungarian, respectively German) or trilingual (Romanian, Hungarian and German)
There are many English language speakers (especially the youth). There are smaller chances to meet French or German speakers.
Official holidays
1, 2 January – New Year
1 May – Labor’s Day
Easter – according to religion, 2 days
1 December – National Day
25, 26 December – Christmas
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