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Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine
Population: 22,276,056 (July 2007 est.)
Religions: Eastern Orthodox (including all sub-denominations) 86.8%, Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal) 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%, none 0.1% (2002 census)
Languages: Romanian 91% (official), Hungarian 6.7%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 1.2%
National holiday: Unification Day (of Romania and Transylvania), 1 December (1918)
Currency (code): "new" leu (RON) was introduced in 2005; "old" leu (ROL) was phased out in 2006; note - because of currency revaluation, 10,000 ROL = 1 RON
Exchange rates: lei per US dollar - 2.45 (2007), 2.809 (2006), 3 (2005), 3 (2004), 3 (2003)
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