Romania adoption 2011

• The capital of Romania is Bucharest, once popular as the ‘Paris of the East’.
• Terrain: Consists mainly of rolling, fertile plains; hilly in the eastern regions of the middle Danube basin; and major mountain ranges running north and west in the center of the country, which collectively are known as the Carpathians.
• Climate: Moderate.
• Romania came into being when the two principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia broke the shackles of Turkish Ottoman suzerainty and merged, in 1859, to form a new land - ‘Romania’.
• Romania covers a total area of 237,500 sq km and the total population of the place is around 22.5 million.
• Apart from the official Romanian language, Hungarian and German form two other major languages of Romania.
• Romania has a Republic type of government.
• The currency of Romania is Romanian ‘leu’ (RON).
• Romania's Danube Delta is a World Heritage site and is the second largest delta in the whole of Europe.
• More than half of Romania's Jewish population died in the Second World War.
• Romania was a part of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) and the Warsaw Treaty Organization.
• After the Second World War, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova was formed, which was earlier a part of Romania.
• Romania joined the European Union in 2007, along with Bulgaria.
• In the year 2000, 100 tonnes of cyanide, from a gold mine in northern Romania, spilled into rivers in Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia and destroyed aquatic life for several hundred kilometers.
• The Transylvanian city of Sibiu is credited as the European Capital of Culture 2007.

Adoption Facts about Romania, 2011

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Note: Romania has stopped all international adoptions except in the case of biological grandparents of the child. In 2011, U.S. citizens adopted approximately 20 children from Romania. (Adoption 2011)