Flag of Romania
What the flag means
- Blue, yellow, red vertical tricolor — liberty, justice and fraternity; the historic provinces
Design set by: Constituția României, art. 12 alin. (1) · Legea nr. 75/1994 privind arborarea drapelului României, intonarea imnului naţional şi folosirea sigiliilor cu stema României · Adopted 1989
Highlights
- 🏰 Dracula's Bran Castle
- ⛪ Medieval Transylvanian villages
- 🏔️ Nature of the Carpathians
- 🌲 Some of Europe's last old-growth forests
- 🎻 Charming folk music
Quick facts
- Region
- Europe · Southeast Europe
- Population
- 19,020,271 people (2025)
- Area
- 238,391 km²
- Capital
- Bucharest
- Languages
- Romanian, Hungarian
- Currency
- Romanian leu (RON)
- Organizations
- United Nations, European Union, NATO
Similar flags
Vertical tricolors
Neighboring countries
Land neighbors, approximated from simplified map outlines.
Symbols in History (3)
Coats of arms and emblems whose historic seat lies within this country’s present-day territory.
Arms of the Principality of Moldavia
OriginThe head of a wild bovine, the star, the rose and the crescent are the core elements of the Moldavian heraldic tradition.
DescriptionA large gold wild ox's head faces forward in the middle of a red shield, and a gold five-pointed star sits between its two curving horns. To the left of the head is a five-petalled rose, and to the right a crescent moon.
Arms of the Principality of Transylvania, 17th-century version
OriginA design combining the upper half of a black eagle, the sun and crescent moon, and seven red towers appears in 17th-century Transylvanian arms.
DescriptionIn the upper blue field is the upper half of a black eagle with its wings spread wide, with a gold sun bearing a human face to its left and a white crescent moon to its right. A red band crosses the middle, and in the lower gold field seven red towers with battlements and black arched gates are ranged, four above and three below.
Arms of the Principality of Wallachia
OriginA design in which a bird holds a cross, accompanied by the sun and the crescent moon, appears in the Wallachian arms tradition.
DescriptionOn a blue field, a black bird with spread wings holds a gold cross in its beak and stands with both feet on a green tree. A gold sun is at the upper left and a white crescent moon at the upper right, and above the shield sits a gold crown with a red cap and white fur trim.
Data Sources
- What the flag means: Constituția României, art. 12 alin. (1) · Legea nr. 75/1994 privind arborarea drapelului României, intonarea imnului naţional şi folosirea sigiliilor cu stema României
- Population: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), latest available value
- Area: World countries in JSON, CSV, XML and YAML
- Organizations: Membership of Principal UN Organs
- Organizations: Member States of the European Union
- Organizations: What is NATO? Member countries