GEOGRAPHY

GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION and BOUNDARIES: 3,149.9 km.

AREA: 238,391 sq km (91,843 sq miles).

RELIEF , RIVERS AND LAKES

CLIMATE: Temperate-continental

VEGETATION , FAUNA and ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION

POPULATION: 22,526,096 thounsand inhabitants in 1998

CAPITAL: Bucharest municipality (divided into 6 administrative districts) with a population of 2,032,000 (1998). Situated in the south of the country, in the Romanian Plain (alt 85 m), the city dates from the 14th century and is recorded in writing for the first time in 1459 as residence of Prince Vlad Tepes. Capital of Wallachia in the 17th-19th centuries, then of Romania since 1862.

ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION

AIRPORTS AND PORTS

Last update: 1999, August 18
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