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03:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Prestonsso12Introduction Romania has an amazing background. This report will teach you about the people, government, history, and much more. With this information you will learn many things that are grate about Romania. Are you ready for it? Geography Romania is located in southeastern Europe between Bulgaria, and the Ukraine bordering the Black Sea. Its absolute location is “46 00 N, 25 00 E”. The Neighbors are Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, (North), and (South) Ukraine. Romania’s area is 237,500 sq km, which is slightly smaller than Oregon. Its population is 22,303,552, which makes the population density 94. The capital of Romania is Bucharest, and some major cites are Giurgiu, Sibiu, Orauca, and Arad. Romania has some Major landforms that are awesome like the Carpathian, and the Carpatii Mountains, and the Prut River which all forms the eastern border with Moldova, and the Danube River forms southern border with Bulgaria. The climate in Romania is temperate: cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow and fog: sunny summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms like in the U.S.A. People Only 89.5% of Romania is Romanian, 6.6% Hungarian, 2.5% Roma, 0.3% Ukrainian, 0.3% German 0.2% Russian, 0.2 Turkish, and 0.4 being other. The official language they speak is Romanian but some do speak Hungarian, and German. In Romania 86.8% of all the religions are Eastern Orthodox, 7.5%are Protestant, 4.7% Roman Catholic, 0.9% other, and 1% being none. The total population of people that can read and write that is over the age of 15 is 98.6%, if we brake this down in too male and females it would be, for males 99.1%, and for females it would be 97.7%. The life expectancy in Romania would be, for males 68.14 years, and for females it would be 75.34 years. The birth rate in Romania is 10.7 births/1,000 population, and the death rate is 11.7deaths/1,000 population. The infant mortality rate for the total would be 25.5 deaths/1,000 live births, for males alone it would be 28.64 deaths/1,000 live births, for females alone it would be 22.16 deaths/10,00 live births. Government In Romania there type of Government is a republic Government which means that people elect representatives to have more power over them. In Romania people are affected by grate leaders of the past like the representatives these people are Dan VOICULESCU, Emil BOC, Bela MARKO, Calin Popescu TARICEANU, Corneliu Vadim TUDOR, Mircea Dan GEOANA. The currency in Romania is 10,000 ROL = 1 RON so 1 US Dollar/27,758.0 Romanian Lei (ROL), and 1 US Dollar/2.77580 Romanian New Lei (RON). What Romania exports are textiles and footwear, metals and metal products, machinery and equipment, minerals and fuels, chemicals, agricultural products, and what there imports are machinery and equipment, fuels and minerals, chemicals, textile and products, basic metals, agricultural products. The GDP in Romania for agriculture is 10.1%, for industry’s it is 35%, and for services it is 54.9%. In Romania there are 0.13 migrants /1,000 populations. History of Romania Romania has an amazing history it dates back all the way to 650 BC but people have also found fossils of small dinosaurs in Romania that dated back to the Cretaceous period. But we are going to start in the year 1431, the year that Vlad the Impaler may have been born. In the year 1431 the grate leader Vlad was born, and he became known by the nick name, Dracula, which means son of the dragon. People know very little of Vlad’s childhood but we do know that he had two brothers. The first time that Vlad ruled was in 1448, but in 1456 was the time he was most known for. Vlad’s favorite way of killing people was impaled, which is piercing somebody with a pointed object most likely a sharpened pole. He was killed in battle in the December of 1476 in a forest north of Bucharest. We know very little about his first wife we don’t even know her first name all we do know about her was that she had a hart of gold and the when ever Vlad left her she felt alone. One day a arrow was shot throw her bed room window saying that the fortress was surrounded by Turks, thinking all hope was lost she killed her self by jumping out her bed room window. In 1878 Romania got its independence. Romania became part of the Allied powers in world war I, but switched over to the Axis powers. Ceausescu took power over Romania but the people in Romania disliked him so they over throw and executed him shortly after. In 1907 was the peasant uprising. And in 2004 Romania became part of N.A.T.O.	Ending As you have read Romania has an amazing background. As the righter of this report I hope you learned about the people, government, history, and all the other good stuff. Thank you for sitting down and reading thro this I hope you had a grate time learning about Romania, because I know I did.