!!!Romania: Geography
||Location|Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine
||Geographic Coordinates|46 00 N, 25 00 E[{GoogleMap location='46.0,25.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''238,391 sq km\\''land: ''229,891 sq km\\''water: ''8,500 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 238391\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 238390\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 237500\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 237500\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 238391\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 238391''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''2,508 km\\''border countries: ''Bulgaria 608 km, Hungary 443 km, Moldova 450 km, Serbia 476 km, Ukraine (north) 362 km, Ukraine (east) 169 km
||Coastline|225 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Black Sea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Moldoveanu 2,544 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Moldoveanu 2545 m; Negoiu 2537 m; Vistea Mare 2527 m; Lespezi 2522 m; Parangul Mare 2522 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Negoiu 2535 m; Vârful Peleaga 2509 m; Papusa 2508 m; Retezat 2482 m; Pietrosul 2303 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Europe/Romania/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Moldavian Plateau on the east by the Eastern Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Walachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps
||Natural Hazards|earthquakes, most severe in south and southwest; geologic structure and climate promote landslides
||Natural Resource|petroleum (reserves declining), timber, natural gas, coal, iron ore, salt, arable land, hydropower
||Land Use|''arable land: ''37.73%\\''permanent crops: ''1.86%\\''other: ''60.41% (2011)
||Climate|temperate; cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow and fog; sunny summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms
||Irrigated Land|6,153 sq km (2007)
||Renewable Water Resources|211.9 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|soil erosion and degradation; water pollution; air pollution in south from industrial effluents; contamination of Danube delta wetlands
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Bucharest; Cluj-Napoca; Iasi; Constanta; Timisoara\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Bucharest; Iasi; Cluj-Napoca; Timisoara; Craiova\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Europe/Romania/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|controls most easily traversable land route between the Balkans, Moldova, and Ukraine\\[Important Rivers|Geography/Europe/Romania/Geography/Important_Rivers]