GENERAL INFORMATIONS
Flag, coat of arms, national anthem, geography
and map
National Flag of Romania
The
national flag of Romania is a tricolors: red, yellow and blue. It has not
undergone many or major changes in the course of history.
Coat of Arms of Romania
An
eagle holding a cross in its beak and a sword and a scepter in its claws,
as well as the symbols of the five historical provinces - Wallachia, Moldova,
Transylvania, Banat and Dobrogea. The heraldic commission set up to design
a new coat of arms for Romania worked intensely, subjecting to Parliament
two final designs which were then combined. What emerged is the current design
adopted by the two Chambers of Romania's Parliament in their joint session
of September 10, 1992.
National Anthem of Romania
The lyrics of the national anthem belong to Andrei Muresan (1816-1863), a Romantic poet, journalist, translator, a genuine tribune of the times marked by the 1848 Revolution. The music was composed by Anton Pann (1796-1854), a poet and ethnographer, a man of great culture, a singer and author of music textbooks.
- file .WAV
(imn-rom.wav - 898796 bytes)
- file .RA (imn-rom.ra - 81552 bytes)
Geographic location and Bordering
Geographic
location: Romania is located in the south
east of the Central Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, in the lower of
the Danube basin, bordering the Black Sea.
Bordering: 3,181.7 Km of border in the north and east - Ukraine and Republic of Moldova (1,327.3 km), west- Hungary (444.8 km), in south-west Yugoslavia (544.3 km), in south - Bulgaria (631.3 km), and in south-east Black Sea (234.0 km).
Area
237,500 km2 / 91,500 mile2; the 13 position in Europe
Physical Map
Administrative division
41
counties and Bucharest municipality (with a county status), 260 towns (of
which 57 municipalities), 2,688 communes (with about 13,000 villages).
For more information about Romania, you can check at: http://www.romania.ici.ro/en