Romania

Romania

Romania ranks 29th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hungary, Czechia, and Egypt. Memorable people born in present day Romania include Vlad the Impaler, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Matthias Corvinus. Memorable people who died in Romania include Vlad the Impaler, Ovid, and Nicolae Ceaușescu. Romania has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It shares land borders with Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east and has its opening to the Black Sea. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres, Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the seventh-most populous member state of the European Union, having approximately 19.3 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest. Other major urban areas include: Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. Read more on Wikipedia