Romaniais arepublicinSoutheast Europewhich borders theBlack Sea,Bulgaria,Ukraine,Hungary,Serbia, andMoldova. It has an area of 238,391 square kilometres (92,043sqmi) and atemperate-continental climate. With 19.94 million inhabitants, the country is theseventh most populousmember state of theEuropean Union. Its capital and largest city,Bucharest, is thesixth largest cityin the EU.
TheRiver Danube, Europe's second longest river, rises in Germany and flows southeastwards for a distance of 2,857km, coursing through ten countries before emptying in Romania'sDanube Delta. TheCarpathian Mountains, with their tallest peakMoldoveanuat 2,544m (8,346ft), cross Romania from the north to the southwest.