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Official name:ROMANIA - 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
Capital: BUCHAREST municipality (divided into 6 administrative districts) with a population of 2,032,000 (1998). Situated in the south of the country, in the Romanian Plain (alt 85 m), the city dates from the 14th century and is recorded in writing for the first time in 1459 as residence of Prince Vlad Tepes. Capital of Wallachia in the 17th-19th centuries, then of Romania since 1862.
Area: 238,500 sq km (91,843 sq miles).
Population: 22,474,000
National Day: December 1st 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.
Type of government: Parliamentarian Republic
Language: Romanian
Legal holidays: 1st and 2nd January (The New Year), Easter day, 1st May, 1st December, 25th and 26th December (Christmas).
Climate: Temperate-continental
Documents:You must have the passport on.
Approval: From 1st January it is not requested for the citizens of the CE.

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International Aeroport: Otopeni 16 km away from Bucarest, check-in in 60 minutes.
Eletricity: 220 V,50 Hz
Weights and measures: the metric system
Time: + 2 GMT (Bucarest h.14 - Roma h.13)
Currency: Leu (meaning "lion"-plural lei)

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Advised currency: US Dollar ($) easy accepted,also EURO ( see www.businessromania.com)
Religion: Christian Orthodox
Telephone: To call from Romania the international prefix is 00+the prefix of the country in which you are dialing+the telephone number.To call from another country to Romania you must dial 0040+the right telephone number.
You can call from the public telephone cabins by using the telephone cards of 100.000 lei and 200.000 lei and the new prepaid cards Evrikard of 100.000 lei ( credit 100.000 lei ) 180.000 lei( credit 200.000 lei ) and 400.000 lei( credit 500.000 lei ).With these you can make a phone call (using an access code) from a fix telephone (excepting mobiles)
There is also the new PCVOICE card( of 5$,10$ and more) which you can use to make international calls at national tariffs.

For those who want to use the cellular phone they can buy it from the packets center with telephone number and credit enclosed.There are 4 mobile operators on the Romanian Mobile Market:CONNEX, ORANGE, ZAPP, COSMOROM

VERY IMPORTANT!!!

From 14th June 2002 hour 00:00-the new National Numbering Plan.The telephone numbers have the following changes:
You add "2" in front of all actual prefix (instead of 01 for Bucharest you dial 021, instead of 035-per Vaslui- you dial 0235).

For mobile operators:
Orange:
Old number : 0 + 90 + 6 figures; New number: 0 + 740 + 6 figures
Old number : 0 + 94 + 6 figures; New number: 0 + 744 + 6 figures
Old number : 0 + 95 + 6 figures; New number: 0 + 745 + 6 figures
Connex:
Old number : 0 + 91 + 6 figures; New number: 0 + 721 + 6 figures
Old number : 0 + 92 + 6 figures; New number : 0 + 722 + 6 figures
Old number : 0 + 93 + 6 figures; New number : 0 + 723 + 6 figures
Cosmorom:
Old number : 0 + 96 + 6 figures; New number : 0 + 766 + 6 figures
Zapp:
Old number : 0 + 98 + 6 figures; New number : 0 + 788 + 6 figures

ROMANIAN POST OFFICE

Central Post Office N°1 - Matei Millo Street nr. 10
tel. 3158793
open till 7:30 to 20:00

METRO IN BUCHAREST

International Markets and Expositions

The main markets and annually organized exposures in Bucharest: - TIBCO - International market of the assets of wide consumption, May-June, Bucharest - ROMMEDICA - Instruments and medical apparatures, May - Bucharest - HOREXPO - hotel, bar and restaurants - Bucharest - TIB - International market (all the industrial,civil and military domains ) - Bucharest

MAPS OF BUCHAREST

TAXI IN BUCHAREST

Cristaxi - tel.9461/9466
Meridian - tel.9444/9888
Prof Taxi - tel.9422
Perrozzi - tel.9631

It is advised to change every day small sums of money because the inflation of leu is very high. The small change currencies are generally reliable and expose every day the changes that had been made.

Always inform yourself in advance on the prices in public (taxis,not exposed prices, etc).

Always use drink water from sealed bottles ( most important marks: Borsec, Perla , Perla Harghita , Doina ).The food is very caloric, and does not have particular hygienic problems.

Visitors are allowed to import up to 200 cigarettes 4 litres of wine and 1 litre of spirits.Technically,cash over US$1000 must be declared.

Speed inside the city is limited 50km/h (90km/h out of the town) and is strictly enforced by the police.

Drink driving (any alcohol over the limit) is punishable by confiscation of license.