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bucharest
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n. The capital city of Romania.
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Bucharest (; , ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, at , on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border.
Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. It became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical ( neo-classical), interbellum ( Bauhaus and art deco), communist-era and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of "Little Paris" (Micul Paris). Although buildings and districts in the historic city centre were heavily damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes, and above all Nicolae Ceaușescu's program of systematization, many survived. In recent years, the city has been experiencing an economic and cultural boom.
According to the 2011 census, 1,883,425 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the 2002 census. The urban area extends beyond the limits of Bucharest proper and has a population of about 1.9 million people. Adding the satellite towns around the urban area, the proposed metropolitan area of Bucharest would have a population of 2.27 million people. According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a larger urban zone of 2,183,091 residents. According to unofficial data, the population is more than 3 million. Bucharest is the sixth- largest city in the European Union by population within city limits, after London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and Paris.
Economically, Bucharest is the most prosperous city in Romania and is one of the main industrial centres and transportation hubs of Eastern Europe. The city has big convention facilities, educational institutes, cultural venues, traditional "shopping arcades", and recreational areas.
The city proper is administratively known as the "Municipality of Bucharest" (Municipiul București), and has the same administrative level as that of a national county, being further subdivided into six sectors, each governed by a local mayor.
Usage examples of "bucharest".
Finally Mary arrives in exotic Bucharest to take up her duties, confident, refreshingly candid-and dangerously innocent.
Our experienced career diplomat in Bucharest screwed up, and we were out in the cold.
She had been invited to live in Bucharest, one of the most exciting capitals of the world, reporting to the President, being in the center of his people-to-people concept.
Chapter Seven OTOPENI Airport, ten miles from the heart of Bucharest, is a modern airport, built to facilitate the flow of travelers from nearby iron curtain countries as well as to take care of the lesser number of Western tourists who visit Remania each year.
At last they reached the center of Bucharest, which was very beautiful.
THE American embassy in Bucharest is a white, semi-Gothic two-story building with.
There are seventy-five embassies in Bucharest, and on any given night some of them are celebrating something.
President, it occurred to me that you could get headlines all over the world if you made Bucharest a sister city of some American city.
Trees and flowers blossomed everywhere in Bucharest, and the parks were green.
The plane- made the five-thousand-mile flight to Bucharest in a little over two and a half hours.
As they neared the outskirts of Bucharest they drove by fields of sunflowers, their faces moving toward the sun.
THE decorations for the Fourth of July party were flown into Bucharest late Saturday afternoon and trucked directly to a United States government warehouse.
And of course I came via Galatz, Bucharest and Pitesti, chiefly to avoid the mountain passes.
It had happened during his third year in Bucharest while he was boarding at the college there.
The college had often used to borrow old documents and records concerning Wallachian and ancient Romanian matters from Pitesti, for a great amount of historical material had been taken there for safety from Ploiesti and Bucharest during World War II.