Romania

Romania

Romania ranks 29th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Switzerland, Norway, and Hungary. Memorable people born in present day Romania include Vlad the Impaler, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Béla Bartók. 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 at the confluence of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate, and an area of 238,397 km2 (92,046 sq mi), with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe, and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. 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