Ro ‧ ma ‧ ni ‧ a /rəʊˈmeɪniə/ BrE AmE ( also Rumania ), or Roumania
a country in southeast Europe, east of Hungary and west of the Black Sea. Population: 22,246,862 (2008). Capital: Bucharest. From the end of World War II it was a Communist country, but in 1989 there was a ↑ revolution . Nicolae Ceauçescu, who had led the country since the 1960s, was killed and Romania became a ↑ democracy . Romania joined the EU (European Union) in 2007.
—Romanian noun , adjective