Everything you need to know about Romania
Explore Romania from Bucharest and the Carpathians to Transylvanian towns, Maramureศ churches and the Danube Delta. Learn forty-one counties and separate Bucharest, place twenty-four cities and sixteen sights, discover ten illustrated topics and begin Romanian.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Romania
The Carpathian arc links Transylvania with the Danube plain and the Black Sea.
Know the shape of the country
Start with forty-one counties and the separate capital municipality, then place twenty-four cities and follow the Danube, Mureศ, Olt, Prut and Ialomiศa to the Black Sea. Zoom in to distinguish Bucharest from Ilfov. Historical regions such as Transylvania differ from administrative counties. Boundaries and waters: Natural Earth, public domain; city coordinates are curated. Rivers continue across borders and the sea retains its geographic extent. These generalised learning maps do not show navigation conditions or maritime boundaries.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Government & history
Palace of the Parliament
The vast parliament complex grew out of Ceauศescuโs redevelopment of Bucharest, which displaced residents and demolished historic neighbourhoods. It now houses parliamentary chambers and other institutions.
Find sixteen sights from Bucharestโs concert hall and royal castles to fortified towns, painted monasteries, wooden churches and the Danube Delta. Landscape pins mark named orientation points rather than entire protected areas. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Romanian with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Romania, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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