Romania (România) is a semi-presidential parliamentary democracy based on a bicameral Parliament, is member of the European Union. Romania is situated in the southeastern part of Central Europe and shares borders with Hungary to the northwest, Yugoslavia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, the Black Sea and Ukraine to the southeast and to the north and the Republic of Moldova to the east

Romania occupies the eastern section of the Carpathian-Danube region, the Eastern Carpathian mountains (with a maximum peak in Mount Pietrosu, 2,305 m.) and the Transylvanian Alps (Mount Moldoveanu, in the Fagaras Massif (Fagarasului) , touches 2,543 m. and is the highest peak of Romania) traverse the center of the country bordered on both sides by foothills, in the center is located the Transylvania plateau surrounded by the Carpathian chain. Along the border with Serbia and Hungary are wide plains that are part of the Pannonian lowlands. To the south, there is the valley of the Danube where stretches the dry plain of Wallachia, and the southeast marshy Dobruja.