Bucharest, Romanian and the leu: a guide before travelling to Romania
A first overview to help you get your bearings before choosing a route: where Romania is, its capital, and the language and currency you’ll encounter.
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Bucharest is Romania’s capital and an urban reference point for beginning to plan a stay in the country. The available information does not detail its connections or current transport services.
The place
What makes it special
- Capital of Romania.
- Romania’s recorded language is Romanian, and its currency is the Romanian leu (lei).
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Sources and references
This profile summarises our destination guides. Their research sources and the geographical reference are listed below.
- Rumania · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q218
- Rumania · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q7362480
- Romania · World Countries — mledoze · ODbL 1.0 · World countries dataset by mledoze and contributors · ODbL 1.0
- Bucharest · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Bucharest · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Bucharest, Romania · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Romania · World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank
- Romania · DBpedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · DBpedia
- Băneasa International Airport · OpenFlights · ODbL 1.0 (base de datos) / DbCL 1.0 (contenidos) · Băneasa International Airport · OpenFlights · ODbL 1.0
- Bucharest · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q19660
- Place identification and coordinates
Profile updated: 04/10/2026