AEGEE IASI, ROMANIA

General information on Romania

Romania is located in the center of the European continent, having as neighbors Hungary in the west, Yugoslavia in the south-west and Bulgaria in south, Ukraine in north and the Moldavian Republic and the Black Sea in the east.

It is situated between 43°37'07" and 48°15'06" latitude north and 20°15'44" and 29°41'24" longitude east. It is also crossed by the 45th parallel at 70 km north of Bucharest and the 25th meridian at 90 km west of Bucharest.

It has a population of about 22 million inhabitants on a surface of 240.000 km2. Romania is the 13-th in surface in and the 10-th in population.

The main cities are : Bucharest : 2,060,551 inhabitants , Constanta : 348,575 , Iasi : 339,728 , Timisoara : 327,830 , Galati : 326,728 , Cluj-Napoca : 326,017 , Brasov : 324,210 , Craiova : 306,825.

Romania is divided into tree major regions: Transylvania in the West, Muntenia in the South and Moldova in the North-East.

The city of Iasi is located in the north-eastern Romania, being considered the cultural capital of Moldova. It is one of the oldest cities of the country, in present being inhabited by approximate 350.000 people.

The climate is temperate, with Mediterranean influences in the east.

For more information on Iasi and Romania we suggest visiting the next sites: www.iasi.dntis.ro and www.aboutromania.com

There are more ways to get to Romania:

By plane www.tarom.ro
By coach www.eurolines.com, www.atlassib.ro
By train www.cfr.ro

The distance between Bucharest and the main European cities:

City	Distance in km	City	Distance in km
Amsterdam	2370	Madrid	3475
Athena	1254	Milan	2775
Belgrade	732	Oslo	2775
Berlin	1740	Paris	2658
Bruxelles	2295	Prague	1408
Budapest	895	Roma	2050
Helsinki	3208	Sofia	407
Istanbul	638	Stockholm	2825
Copenhagen	2307	Warsaw	1487
Lisboan	4073	Vienna	1106
London	2666

The air transportation is assured by the TAROM Company which provides connections between Bucharest and the main European cities. The landing is on the international airport Bucharest - Otopeni.

The main flights:

Athens--Bucharest	Brussels--Bucharest
Budapest -- Bucharest	Khishnev--Bucharest
Frankfurt -- Bucharest	Milano - Malpensa--Bucarest
Istanbul -- Bucharest	Munich--Bucarest
Madrid -- Bucharest	Paris Charles De Gaulle--Bucarest
Prague-- Bucharest	Rome-Fiumicino--Bucharest
Thessalonica -- Bucharest	Sofia-- Bucharest
Vienna—Bucharest	Warsaw -- Bucharest

For more information on the flights, visit the Tarom site: www.tarom.ro.

In order to get to Romania by coach, you can make reservations at ATLASSIB. There are multiple connexions between Bucharest, Iasi and the European cities. You can take the buses from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Sweden, Czech.

Most of the buses stop/go from Bucharest at Rahova Station and in Iasi at the West bus station...

Visit the Atlassib/Eurolines agencies in every country or visit the site www.atlassib.ro or www.eurolines.com for information on the journey, the cities along, medical insurance, etc.

By train, there are 5 major train connexions

Beograd - Bucharest
Bucharest – Budapest – Prague – Berlin and Bucharest – Budapest – Vienna – Munich – Strasbourg – Paris
Bucarest – Cernauti and Bucarest – Warszawa
Bucharest – Chisinau, Bucharest – Kiev, and Bucharest – Moscow
Bucharest – Sofia and Bucharest – Istanbul

For more information visit the site www.cfr.ro

Bucharest - Iasi

Between Iasi and Bucharest there are approximately 400 km, the trip would last about 1 hour by plane, 6 hours by car or bus and 7 hours by train.

There are two daily flights from Bucharest to Iasi (www.tarom.ro).

The buses are leaving from Bucharest at the Double T Station (Piata Unirii)

There are also small buses leaving from the North Railway station of Bucharest

There are 6 trains – 2 in the morning, one at noon, 2 in the afternoon and a night train, leaving from the North Railway station Gr.A to Iasi. For details of the schedule and reservations go to the site www.cfr.ro

Getting to Iasi