Romania is located in southeastern Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula and shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south. While Romania's income level remains one of the lowest in the European Union, reforms have increased the growth speed. Romania is now an upper-middle income country economy.
Romania has the 9th largest territory and the 7th largest population (with 22 million people and the 6th largest city in the EU with 1.9 million people and has a surface area of 238,391 square kilometres (92,043 sq mi) - Romania is the largest country in southeastern Europe and the twelfth-largest in Europe. Romania's terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountainous, hilly and lowland territories.
