Map of Romania

Romania is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 46.0° N, 25.0° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Romania is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Romania shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Romania covers about 238,391 km² (92,043 sq mi). That makes it the 81st-largest country in the world by area and the 12th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 33 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 19,036,031, the 68th-largest in the world and the 9th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 2.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Romania has an average population density of about 80 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 9th by population and 12th by area.

The seat of government is Bucharest, and the official currency is the Romanian leu (RON, lei), and the main official language is Romanian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Romania carries the ISO country codes RO and ROU, dials on the international calling code +40 and uses the .ro internet domain.

Romania shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ukraine (capital Kyiv, about 32,862,000 people), Hungary (capital Budapest, about 9,539,502 people), Serbia (capital Belgrade, about 6,567,783 people), Bulgaria (capital Sofia, about 6,437,360 people) and Moldova (capital Chișinău, about 2,749,076 people).

By area, Romania is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 46.0° N, 25.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Romania within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Bucharest. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Romania lies about 5,106 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Romania keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Romanian leu (RON, lei).

The official language is Romanian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +40 and websites commonly use the .ro internet domain.

In short, Romania is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Bucharest. Romania has a population of about 19,036,031 and covers around 238,391 km² (92,043 sq mi), ranking it 68th in the world by population and 81st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Romania.

The flag of Romania is composed of three equal vertical bands of navy blue, yellow and red.

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