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 About Romania
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| OFFICIAL NAME
| ROMANIA
http://www.romania.org
This name was adopted in 1862, after the formation of the national state by the union of the two Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in 1859.
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NATIONAL FLAG
| (proportion 3/2) three equal vertical stripes red, yellow, and blue (near to the staff). In December 1989 the emblem on the yellow stripe was removed. The tricolour flag was adopted for the first time as national flag during the 1848 Revolution in Wallachia.
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| NATIONAL COAT-OF-ARMS (since 1992)
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| FORM OF GOVERNMENT
| Republic.
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| NATIONAL DAY
| December 1 was adopted as National Day in 1990, being the day of celebration of the Great Assembly of Alba Iulia which voted for the union of Transylvania with Romania and which symbolise the union of all Romanians within a single state and the achievement of the unity of Romanian national state.
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| LEGAL HOLIDAYS
| 1 and 2 January (The New Year), Easter Monday, May Day, 1 December, 25 and 26 December (Christmas).
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| STATE ANTHEM (since 1990)
| Awake, Ye, Romanian, from your lethargic sleep/ In which your barbarous tyrants have sunken you so deep. Lyrics: Andrei Muresanu, music: Anton Pann. The song was popular during the 1848
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| OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
| The Romanian language, which is the mother tongue of around 90% of the country's population. The easternmost representative of the family of Romance languages, Romanian descends directly from the Latin. The citizens belonging to ethnic minorities may freely use their mother tongue in schools, administration, justice, the media, culture.
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| FOREIGN LANGUAGES
| The main foreign language used in Romania are: English, French, German. From the mid-19th century to the 1960s, the main foreign language used in Romania was French, to a certain extend, German.
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| STANDARD TIME
| East European zone lime (GMT + 2 hours). As of 1979, from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in September, Daylight Saving Time (GMT + 3 hours). Romania lies in the same time zone with the Republic of Moldova, Finland, Greece, Israel, Egypt and the Republic of South Africa.
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| WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
| The metric system, in force since 1866.
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| CURRENCY
| Romanian Leu (RON)
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| RELIGION
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| INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP
| Romania has diplomatic and consular relations with 164 states and is a member of UNO, IAEA, IBRD, FAO, IFAD, GATT, ICAO, ILO, IMO, WMO, WIPO, WHO, UNIDO, ITU, UNESCO, UPU. In 1993 Romania becomes EEC and EFTA associate member, and the 32nd Council of Europe member. On 26 January 1994 Romania was the first Eastern European state to sign in Brussels NATO's "Partnership for Peace".
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