During World War I, after declaring its neutrality in 1914, Romania fought together with the Allied Powers from 1916. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. The modern Romanian state was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Settlement in what is now Romania began in the Lower Paleolithic followed by written records attesting the kingdom of Dacia, its conquest, and subsequent Romanization by the Roman Empire during late antiquity. The Carpathian Mountains cross Romania from the north to the southwest and include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of 2,544 m (8,346 ft).

It is member of the European Union (EU), NATO, European Council (EUCO), BSEC, and WTO.Įurope's second-longest river, the Danube, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows southeasterly for 2,857 km (1,775 mi), before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. It has a predominantly temperate- continental climate, and an area of 238,397 km 2 (92,046 sq mi), with a population of around 19 million. 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. Romania ( / r oʊ ˈ m eɪ n i ə/ ( listen) roh- MAY-nee-ə Romanian: România ( listen)) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. eu, shared with other European Union member states.

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