Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe. It shares border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south. Romania has a stretch of sea coast along the Black Sea. It is located roughly in the lower basin of Danube and almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory.

Romania is a parliamentary unitary state. As a nation-state, the country was formed by he merging of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 and it gained recognition of its independence in 1878. Later, in 1918, they were joined byTransylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia. At the end of World War II, parts of its territories (roughly the present day Moldova) were occupied by USSR and Romania became a member of Warsaw Pact. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Romania started a series of political and economical reforms that peaked with Romania joining EU.

Romania is a member of the European Union since January 1, 2007, and has the ninth largest territory in the EU and with 22 million people [2] it has the seventh largest population among the EU member states. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, the sixth largest city in the EU with almost 2 million people. In 2007, Sibiu, a large city in Transylvania was chosen as European Capital of Culture. Romania is also a member of NATO since March 29, 2004, and also a member of the Latin Union, of the Francophonie and of OSCE.