Roumainie

Romanie or Roumainie ( ) is a sovereign state locatit in Sootheastren Europe. It mairches the Black Sea, Bulgarie, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbie, an Moldovae. It haes an area o  an a temperate-continental climate. Wi awmaist 20 million fowk, the kintra is the seivent maist populous member state o the European Union. Its caipital an maistmuckle city, Bucharest, is the saxt-maistmuckle city athin the EU, wi 1,883,425 fowk as o 2011.

The River Danube, Europe's seicont-maistmuckle river, rises in Germany an flowes in a general sootheast direction for , coorsin throu ten kintras afore emptyin intae Roumainie's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Moontains, that cross Roumainie fae the north tae the soothwast, include Moldoveanu, at .

Modren Roumainie wis formed in 1859 throu a personal union o the Danubian Principalities o Moldavie an Wallachie. The new state, offeecially cried Roumainie sin 1866, gained unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire in 1877. At the end o Warld War I, Transylvanie, Bukovina an Bessarabie unitit wi the sovereign Kinrick o Roumainie. In Warld War II, Roumainie wis an ally o Nazi Germany agin the Soviet Union, fechtin side bi side wi the Wehrmacht till 1944, whan it jyned the Allied pouers an faced occupation bi the Reid Airmy forces. Roumainie lost seeveral territories, tho Northren Transylvanie wis regotten efter the war. Follaein the war, Roumainie becam a socialist republic an member o the Warsaw Pact. Efter the 1989 Revolution, Roumainie begoud a transeetion thewart democracy an a caipitalist mercat economy.

Roumainie is a developin kintra an ane o the puirest in the European Union, rankin 50t in the Human Development Index, awtho as o 2017 its economy is growin at an estimatit annual rate o 5%, tied wi Maltae for the heichest in the EU. Follaein rapid economic growthe in the early 2000s, Roumainie haes an economy predominantly based on services, an is a producer an net exporter o machines an electric energy, featurin companies lik Automobile Dacia an OMV Petrom. It haes been a member o NATO syne 2004, an pairt o the European Union syne 2007. A strang majority o the population identifee thairsels as Eastren Orthodox Christians an are native speakers o Roumains, a Romance leid. The cultural history o Roumainie is eften referred tae whan dealin wi influential airtists, muisickers, inventors, an sportsfowk.

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