Romania

This article is about the country called Romania. For other uses of the term Romania, please see Romania (disambiguation).

Romania—rarely written Rumania, Roumania—(Romanian: România) is a country in Southeastern Europe. It shares borders with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Moldova to the northeast, Bulgaria to the south, and has a sea coast along the Black Sea on the east. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest. The country joined the European Union on January 1, 2007.