Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe. It shares border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast and Bulgaria to the south. Romania has a stretch of sea coast along the Black Sea. Romania is the largest country in southeaster Europe and the twelfth-largest in Europe. The terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountainous, hilly, and lowland territories. The highest mountain is Moldoveanu Peak which is 2544 meter.

The culture of Romania is rich and varied. It is fundamentally defined as the meeting point of 3 regions: Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Modern Romanian culture emerged and developed over roughly in the last 250 years under a strong influence from the Western culture. The Western culture is mainly French and German culture. Romania is a secular state thus having no national religion. Bucharest is the capital and the largest city in Romania.

Romania is a parliamentary unitary state. With a GDP per capita of 10661 dollars estimated for 2007, Romania is considered an upper middle income economy. It has been a part of the European Union since 1 January 2007. Main exports of Romania are clothing and textiles, electrical and electronic equipments, metallurgic products, industrial machinery, raw materials, cars, military equipment, software, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural products.