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1 What is the area code of Bucharest?

2 It is made up of the ________, as well as a surface transport system run by RATB (Regia Autonomă de Transport Bucureşti), which consists of buses, trams, trolleybuses, and light rail.

3 What timezone is Bucharest in during daylight savings?

4 What is the postcode of Bucharest?

5 Which of the following subdivisions is Bucharest in?

6 Also, the Romanian ________ Team usually plays its matches in Bucharest, either outdoors at the BNR Arena or indoors at the Sala Polivalentă.

7 What timezone is Bucharest in?

8 How many feet above sea level is Bucharest?

9 What is the native name for Bucharest

10 What is the metropolitican population of Bucharest?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the choir of Stavropoleos Church, an Eastern Orthodox church in central Bucharest, Romania, sings (neo-)Byzantine music, now a rare occurrence for churches in Romania?
  • the Bucharest school of Jean Alexandre Vaillant contributed to Westernization in Wallachia during the 1830s?
  • the Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest, Romania, now a Hilton, may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II, and only slightly less so during the Cold War?
  • the French Church in Bucharest, Romania, is topped by a Gallic rooster?
  • the Russian administrator Pavel Kiselyov was responsible for the creation of an important transport artery in Bucharest - a boulevard which now bears his name?
  • in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on Dealul Mitropoliei in Bucharest in support of Alexander John Cuza (pictured) in his election to become the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia?
  • an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
  • Apartment Building 63 located in Bucharest is the largest single residential building in Romania with a total of 950 apartments and over 1,600 residents?
  • Ionel Fernic made the first parachute jump in Romania on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest?
  • Mitică, a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale, has become, especially in Transylvania, a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians?
  • Kir Ianulea, a 1909 novella by Romanian author Ion Luca Caragiale, relocated Niccolò Machiavelli's Belfagor arcidiavolo into Phanariote-era Bucharest?
  • Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
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