Bucharest, Romania
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E. According to the 2011 census, 1,883,425 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the 2002 census. In English, a native resident of the city is called a ‘Bucharester’ or a ‘Cucur Bucurester’
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Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E. 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, interbellum, 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 ‘Paris of the East’ or ‘Little Paris’ In 2017, Bucharest was the European city with the highest growth of tourists who stay over night, according to the Mastercard Global Index of Urban Destinations. UiPath, a global startup founded in Bucharest, has reached over USD 10 billion in valuation. Bucharest hosts the largest high tech summit in Southeast Europe. According to the 2011 census, 1,883,425 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the 2002 census. Adding the satellite towns around the urban area, the proposed metropolitan area of Bucharest would have a population of 2.27 million people. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the Romanian government used 2.5 million people as the basis for reporting infection rate in the city. The Romanian name București has an unverified origin. In Romanian, the word stem bucurie means ‘joy’, and it is believed to be of Dacian origin, hence the city Bucharest means ‘city of joy’ The city has a number of large convention facilities, educational institutes, cultural venues, traditional’shopping arcades’ and recreational areas.
The city is the fourth largest city in the European Union by population within city limits,. after Berlin, Madrid, and Rome. It has the same administrative level as that of a national county, being further subdivided into six sectors, each governed by a local mayor. In English, a native resident of the city is called a ‘Bucharester’ or a ‘Cucur Bucurester’ Bucharest’s history alternated periods of development and decline from the early antiquity in early antiquity until its early 20th century. The town was first mentioned in documents in 1459, and it became the residence of the Voivodeachia of Vladimirescu in 18th century. It was run by Greek administrators from the 18th century until its short-lived revolt by Tudor Tudor. In 1781, Austrian historian Franz Sulzer claimed that it was related to bu Curie, bucuros, or a se buura, a beech forest. In 19th-century book published in Vienna, an early English-language book assumed its name to be derived from ‘Bukukovie’, a ‘cukovie’ In English ‘cucur’ is an early name for the city, while in Romanian it is called ‘Bucure�’ti’
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