Romania

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Romania. Romania is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. View spans 19.4°E to 30.6°E and 43.2°N to 48.7°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Romania is filled. The 10 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Romania. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 46.0°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 19.4°E–30.6°E, 43.2°N–48.7°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Romania. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.

    Know a news source for Romania? Tell us where to look.

    A person checks who runs an outlet before we describe it, so nothing you send appears here straight away — and nothing appears at all until that check is done.

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Romania: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Parliament of Romania ↗

    Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Bucharest

    28°C / 83°FPartly cloudywind 6 km/h / 4 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Bucharest, 2026-09-20Sunrise 7:00 AM · sunset 7:17 PM12h 17m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    ROUuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vuncited
    Capital
    Bucharestuncited
    Official language
    Romaniancited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    No source assessed yet

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Romania: the UN's 2025 estimate is 19,020,271 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 3.6 fewer an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    19,020,271 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    19,051,804 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 3.6 fewer an hour (-31,554 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    19,020,2712025
    GDP
    428,677,977,8552025
    GDP per capita
    22,5382025
    Life expectancy at birth
    76.5 years2024
    Exports
    35.5%2025
    Imports
    40.7%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  9. World Heritage Sites

    11 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Danube Delta · inscribed 1991 · shared with Ukraine
    2. Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania · inscribed 1993
    3. Horezu monastery · inscribed 1993
    4. churches of Moldavia · inscribed 1993
    5. Historic Centre of Sighișoara · inscribed 1999
    6. wooden churches of Maramureș · inscribed 1999
    7. Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains · inscribed 1999
    8. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
    9. Roșia Montană Mining Landscape · inscribed 2021
    10. Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu · inscribed 2024
    11. Limes Dacicus · inscribed 2024

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    RON

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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