| Romania |
 Ce se faci?... Ce se faci? means 'what can you do?' It is an expression accompanied with a shrug of the shoulders and a despondent glance. A more positive side of the ce se faci attitude is 'A face haz de necaz' - 'be cheerful in grief'. 'Adapt or perish,' Romanian life-view. 'In Romania, geography is history, and the Romanian character has been formed by geography… Romania is the buffer between the east and the west, a Latin island in Slavic territory.' Mircea Goga, Romanian Professor of Philology.  Location: Europe Status: UN Country Capital City: Bucharest (Bucuresti) Main Cities: Constanta, Iasi, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca Population: 23,434,000 Area: 237,500 km2 Currency: 1 Romanian leu = 100 bani Languages: Romanian, Hungarian Religions: Romanian Orthodox, Roman Catholic |
