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Romania is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe. It lies on the lower course of the Danube, north of the Balkan Peninsula, and on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It is the twelfth-largest country in Europe by area, covering 238,397 km2 , and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union, with 19 million inhabitants. The capital, largest city and economic centre is Bucharest. Other major cities include Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Constanța, Timișoara, Brașov and Craiova. Romania was settled during the Lower Paleolithic, later becoming Dacia before Trajan's Dacian Wars and Romanisation. The modern Romanian state was formed in 1859 with the unification of Moldavia and Wallachia under Alexandru Ioan Cuza, becoming the Kingdom of Romania in 1881 under Carol I of Romania. Romania gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877, formalised by the Treaty of Berlin.
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Net annual earnings (single, no children)
13,232.7 €/year
An annual earnings reference for the stated household model, not a promised salary or a measure of your personal take-home pay.
Data period: 2025. Source: Eurostat — Annual net earnings (earn_nt_net) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →Household electricity price (band DC, all taxes)
0.2 EUR/kWh
Data period: 2025-S1. Source: Eurostat — Electricity prices for household consumers (nrg_pc_204) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →Comparative price level (household consumption)
64.1 (EU average = 100)
Data period: 2024. Source: Eurostat — Price level indices, household final consumption (tec00120 / prc_ppp_ind_1) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →Healthcare / health outcome (life expectancy at birth)
76.3 years
Life expectancy describes population health outcomes; it does not measure the quality or availability of a particular hospital.
Data period: 2023. Source: Eurostat — Life expectancy at birth (tps00205 / demo_mlexpec) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →English / language accessibility
48.8 index
Data period: 2022. Source: Eurostat — Number of foreign languages known, self-reported (edat_aes_l21) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →Fixed broadband / internet quality
95.9 pct_hh_vhcn
Data period: 2024. Source: Eurostat — Broadband internet coverage by technology (isoc_cbt) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →Intentional homicide rate
0.9 per 100,000 people
Homicide rates are a narrow safety indicator. They do not describe petty crime or the safety of an individual neighbourhood.
Data period: 2022. Source: Eurostat — Police-recorded offences by category (crim_off_cat) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →Air quality — annual mean PM2.5
20.3 µg/m³
Data period: 2017. Limited confidence. Source: World Bank — PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure (EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3) · CC BY 4.0 with World Bank additional termsCompare with another city →Overall tax burden (taxes + social contributions, % of GDP)
28.7 % of GDP
Taxes and social contributions as a share of the economy, not your personal income-tax rate.
Data period: 2024. Source: Eurostat — Main national accounts tax aggregates (gov_10a_taxag) · Eurostat attribution reuse termsCompare with another city →Typical monthly rent, 1-bedroom, national
545 €/month
Index-based estimate, not observed rent
Data period: 2024. Limited confidence. Source: Deloitte Property Index 2025 (14th edition) — 'Average Monthly Rent per sqm in EUR, 2024' (77 cities) · Deloitte copyright / restricted website termsCompare with another city →Income level — GNI per capita, PPP (gross)
49,550 international dollars (PPP)
Purchasing-power-adjusted national income per person is not a salary or take-home pay.
Data period: 2025. Source: World Bank — GNI per capita, PPP (NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD) · CC BY 4.0 with World Bank additional termsCompare with another city →Average gross monthly earnings — country reference
1,722.4 USD/month
Average employee pay before tax and deductions, in US dollars. This country reference is not a city-specific salary or personal take-home pay.
Data period: 2025. Source: ILO — Average gross monthly earnings of employees · CC BY 4.0 (ILO datasets published from 3 May 2023)Compare with another city →Education system (national)
117 points (0–188)
Data period: 2025. Estimate. Source: World Bank HCI+ education pillar (2025) · CC BY 4.0 with World Bank additional termsCompare with another city →