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Geography

Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine

Area:
total area: 237,500 sq km
land area: 230,340 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon

Land boundaries: total 2,508 km, Bulgaria 608 km, Hungary 443 km, Moldova 450 km, Serbiaand Montenegro 476 km (all with Serbia), Ukraine (north) 362 km, Ukraine (south) 169 km

Coastline: 225 km


People

Population: 23,198,330 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 21% (female 2,413,933; male 2,534,019)
15-64 years: 67% (female 7,737,531; male 7,732,038)
65 years and over: 12% (female 1,604,210; male 1,176,599)

Population growth rate: 0.09% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 13.71 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.93 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -2.88 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 18.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.24 years
male: 69.31 years
female: 75.35 years

Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Romanian 89.1%, Hungarian 8.9%, German 0.4%, Ukrainian, Serb, Croat, Russian, Turk, and Gypsy 1.6%

Religions: Romanian Orthodox 70%, Roman Catholic 6% (of which 3% are Uniate), Protestant 6%, unaffiliated 18%

Languages: Romanian, Hungarian, German

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1992)
total population: 97%
male: 98%
female: 95%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Romania

Type: republic

Capital: Bucharest

Independence: 1881 (from Turkey; republic proclaimed 30 December 1947)

Constitution: 8 December 1991


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $64.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 3.4%

National product per capita: $2,790

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 62%

Unemployment rate: 10.9%

Electricity:
capacity: 22,180,000 kW
production: 50.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,076 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.