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In general, the names of web sites originating in Romania have been given here in Romanian, with the accompanying annotation providing an English translation. Romanian diacritical marks have not been used.
It is a common practice for many web sites created in non-English speaking countries to provide an interface not only in the national language but also in English in order to reach an international audience. Keep in mind that such bilingual (or multilingual) Web sites are often more complete in the national language.
The web sites described in this section provide general information; general portals; residential and organizational telephone/address directories; statistical resources for all disciplines; and state symbols, holidays and currency.
Index for this page:
General Portals
Directories
National Symbols
National Institute of Statistics (http://www.insse.ro/cms/rw/pages/index.ro.do)
Official statistical office of the Romanian government. Provides basic statistical indicators. A statistical yearbook two or three years back is available for downloading, which includes agriculture, culture, the economy, elections, geography, industry, investments, population, prices, territorial statistics, transport, and other categories. In Romanian and English.
Romania Factbook (http://www.factbook.net)
Provides extensive information on Romania's geography, climate, topography, natural resources, energy, agriculture, demographics, government, economy, communications and transport. Under the category 'Population' a chart gives the name of each administrative division (judet), with its population, a map link, and the name and population of the division's main city. Provides exchange rates for the current date and retrospectively to 2000. Made available through the joint efforts of Investor Services srl and iNES Internet.
Welcome to Romania (http://www.ici.ro/romania/)
Provides abundant information and links under the following categories: geography; history; politics; culture; tourism; Bucharest; and weather. Includes exchange rates going back to the year 2000. In English and Romanian.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Romania (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ro.html)
General information and statistics about Romania, with the following subdivisions:
introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation,
military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Department of State. Background
Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on Romania.
U.S. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Country Profile: Romania (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Romania.pdf)
Offers brief, summarized information on Romania's historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security. July 2005.
U.S. Library of Congress.
Federal Research Division. Romania: a country study (http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/rotoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1991 an extensive handbook entitled Romania: a country study. The text and selected graphics of the 356-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The reader can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.)
aboutromania.com (http://www.aboutromania.com)
An excellent portal on Romania, with the following categories: Arts, Bucharest, Cities, Economy, Education, Entertainment, Fashion, Free Stuff, Gymnastics, Maps, Photos, Politics, Postcards, Romania (basic information and general resources), RoWorld (Romanian communities in and beyond Romania), Search, Shareware, Shopping, Sports, and Travel. Compiled by Tatiana Murzin.
Open Directory Project.
Regional. Europe: Romania (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Romania/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines.
romania.org (http://www.romania.org)
Portal established in 1996 focuses exclusively on Romania. Features and services include links to news, books, country information, an online English-Romanian and Romanian-English dictionary.
Internet Gateway to Sources for Romanian Studies (http://www.huntington.edu/srs/srs_gateway.htm)
Provides an extensive list of links to resources (especially scholarly) pertaining to Romania. Maintained at Huntington College by Prof. Paul Michelson, Secretary of the Society for Romanian Studies.
Colegi.ro (http://www.neogen.ro/groups/?nelogat_p=colegi)
Provides email directories of alumni from hundreds of schools and universities throughout Romania. It only contains contact information for alumni who have registered with the system. Many Romanians use this resource to re-establish contacts. In Romanian.
Country and City Telephone Codes (http://www.infocities.ro/codes.html)
The Romanian Infocities web site provides telephone area codes for Romanian cities and counties (judete).
U.S. Library of Congress. European Reading Room. Online Romanian Directories at the Library of Congress. Retrospective Telephone/Address Directories from Romania (http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/phonero/romfondr.html)
Telephone and address directories (both residential and organizational) for approximately one dozen Romanian cities and regions. The earliest volume is the Anuarul 'Socec' al Romaniei-Mari, published 1924-25, an extensive two-volume compilation covering organizations and businesses throughout Romania. The Library of Congress has digitized these two volumes and made them available online at http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/phonero/romdir.html.
White Pages Romania (http://www.whitepages.ro)
Residential telephone numbers for all Romania. Searches can include first name, last name, or street and must be limited by city or district (judet) rather than all Romania.
Yellow Pages Romania (http://www.yellowpages.ro)
Allows users to search by 1) the name of a company/organization; 2) hundreds of product/service categories (click Domains for the list of categories); or 3) street. Searches must be limited by city or district (judet) rather than all Romania. The White Pages described above and the Yellow Pages described here are merged in one web site, allowing users to toggle between the two.
Coat of Arms of Romania (http://www.roembus.org/english/romanian%5Flinks/stema.htm)
Provides a full-color illustration of the official coat of arms and a lengthy description of its symbols and history. Maintained by the Embassy of Romania in Washington, D.C.
National Anthem of Romania (http://www.romania.org/romania/anthem.html)
Background information on the current anthem (English), lyrics (in Romanian), links to several audio files that play the anthem, as well as a link to listen to the former national anthem.
World Flag Database - Romania (http://www.flags.net/RMNA.htm)
The current Romanian flag. Other countries' flags are available at the same web site.
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