Romania's official language is Romanian, a Latin-based language. It's population is a mix of 31 different people groups, the most prominent being Romanians, Hungarians, and Germans. Romania's total population is 21,738,000 people. It's government is a presidential republic.

Romania celebrates many holidays, but some of the better known ones are New Years, Easter, Labor Day, and Christmas. They also celebrate their own national holiday called the Great Union Day, which celebrates the union of the two principalities that form Romania, Moldavia and Wallachia.

The flag of Romania has three vertical stripes: blue, red, and yellow. The blue and red stripes are the colors of Moldavia and the yellow and red stripes are the colors of Walachia. Moldavia and Walachia were two principalities that combined in 1862 to form Romania.

Romania is located in the Northern Hemisphere on the continent of Europe. It’s bordered by Ukraine on the north, Moldova on the northeast, the Black Sea on the east, Bulgaria on the south, and Serbia and Hungary on the west.

About 94.5% of Romanians claim to be Christian, yet most aren't actually saved. Romanian Eastern Orthodox Christians believe in some of the Catholic traditions of christening a baby, so the child's parents make its decision to become saved. The child doesn't decide this himself which isn't an evangelical Christian point of view. The main reason that most Romanians are recorded as Christians is because that is what is socially acceptable.

The remaining 5.5% of the population are either Roman Catholic, Islamic, or Jewish.

Romania began with the Geto-Dacians. Between the 6th and 4th centuries BC, the Dacians gathered culture and traditions from surrounding countries and formed their own civilization, which was later conquered by the Romans. The Dacians absorbed the Roman culture and began speaking Latin, the Romans’ language. When the Romans left the area, many barbarian tribes invaded but the Roman culture remained. The principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia were formed in the 14th century, only to be conquered by the Ottoman Turks. After the Independence War, Wallachia and Moldavia gained independence from Turkey and both principalities united to form Romania, which means “Land of the Romans”.

The country of Romania is about as big as Oregon and is the 12th largest country in Europe. It's major land feature is the Carpathian Mountains, which go through north and central Romania for about 600 miles. Romania's terrain is nearly evenly divided between mountains, hills, and plains. The Danube River flows into the Black Sea after traveling 1,864 miles through Europe, forming the Danube Delta.

Romania's currency is the leu. In 1989, Romania began the transition from communism, as they were a part of the Soviet Union. Beginning in 1997, the European Union demanded many exports from Romania which put them into an economic recession until 2000. From 2000 to 2011, Romania was economically unstable. In 2012, they began to make progress because of a large amount of exports and a good harvest.

Romania is around 41% arable and 29% is forested. Agriculture used to be the backbone of the economy until the turn of the 20th century, when industrialization began to occur. Irrigation systems failed in the year 2000 that had been established in the communist era, resulting in just a little over one fourth of the population employed in agriculture by the early 21st century. Romania has an abundance of natural resources, such as petroleum, timber, natural gas, coal, iron ore, and salt, as well as facilities for hydropower. Romania manufactures machines, metals, chemicals, and textiles.

Easter egg painting is an important art form in Romania. The eggs usually feature some kind of religious symbol and animal designs. A sharp stick made of beech wood, called a festeleu, is used to decorate the eggs. An old Romanian legend says that if you paint a decoration on the egg every day the week before Easter and then put your egg on a garbage dump, an animal, usually a dog, will try to take it. You shouldn't let the animal take it because it will come back for the egg and grant you any wish you have in order to get it.

Some other facts about Romania is that a 19 year old Romanian student, Ionut Budisteanu, has recently designed a system that drives your car.

The book Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, was set in a castle in Transylvania, which is in Romania. Today people can visit the castle and receive a traditional welcome.

Nadia Comaneci was born in Romania and began gymnastics at 6 years of age. By the time she was 14, she went to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. On the uneven parallel bars, she was the first woman ever to score a perfect 10. She finished the 1976 Olympics with 7 more perfect 10s and went home with 3 gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 bronze. She went on to marry Bart Conner, a Olympian gymnast from the United States.