Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Bucharest.

Since the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Bucharest has again become an increasingly cosmopolitan city, including identifiable Chinese and Irish presences.

Bucharest is known to be the only city in Romania which as of 2009 has an underground railway system, comprising both the Bucharest Metro and the light rail system Regia Autonomă de Transport Bucureşti.

" Depp, so far, has made no mention of his involvement, but was seen in Bucharest around the same time in mid-July as Romanian news outlets reported Gilliam was staying in the city for negotiations on studio work with Romanian film production company MediaPro Studios.

The urban area extends beyond the limits of Bucharest proper and has a population of 1. 93 million people.

According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a Larger Urban Zone of 2, 151, 880 residents.

The city proper is administratively known as the Municipality of Bucharest ( Municipiul București ), and has the same administrative level as a county, being further subdivided into six sectors.

The name of Bucureşti has an uncertain origin: tradition connects the founding of Bucharest with the name of Bucur who was either a prince, an outlaw, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a hunter, according to different legends.

Bucharest has a continental-type climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfa ).

Bucharest has a unique status in Romanian administration, since it is the only municipality that is not part of a county.

Additionally, Bucharest has a prefect, who is appointed by Romania's central government.

Each of the six sectors has its own local first instance court ( judecătorie ), while appeals from these courts ' verdicts, and more serious cases, are directed to the Bucharest Tribunal, the city's municipal court.

Bucharest has its own municipal police force, the Bucharest Police ( Poliția București ), which is responsible for policing of crime within the whole city, and operates a number of special divisions.

The city also has five other railway stations run by CFR, most important are Basarab ( in proximity of North Station ), Obor, Baneasa, Progresu, which are in the process of being integrated in a commuter railway serving Bucharest and the surrounding Ilfov county.

Bucharest has two international airports:

Although it is situated on the banks of a river, Bucharest has never functioned as a port city, with other Romanian cities such as Constanța and Galați acting as the country's main ports.

Bucharest has an eclectic mixture of elements from traditionally Romanian buildings to buildings that are influenced by French architects.

Bucharest has a large number of landmark buildings and monuments.

Performing arts are one of the strongest cultural elements of Bucharest, and the city has a number of world-renowned facilities and institutions.

Another well-known theatre in Bucharest is the State Jewish Theatre, which has gained increasing prominence in recent years due partly to the fact that it features plays starring world-renowned Romanian-Jewish actress Maia Morgenstern.

Since 2005 Bucharest has its own contemporary art biennale, the Bucharest Biennale.

In the 2000s, due to the growing prominence of the Chinese community in Bucharest, several Chinese cultural events took place.

It is also one of the fastest growing areas in Bihor county in terms of development and foreign investment, due to its location on the E60 Budapest-Bucharest highway, the quarter being the first point of contact with Oradea when arriving from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and other major Romanian cities.

His premiership also evidenced the growing tensions between the PND in Bucharest and its former allies in Transylvania: Iorga arrived to power after rumors of a PNŢ " Transylvanian conspiracy ", and his cabinet included no Romanian Transylvanian politicians.

Its population is growing due to its proximity to Bucharest, with a population of 25, 105, it is the smallest county capital of Romania by population.

In tune with the increasing demands of the Ottomans and the growing in importance of trade with the Balkans, the political and commercial center of Wallachia began gravitating towards the south ; before the end of the 17th century, Bucharest became Wallachia's most populous city, and one of the largest ones in the region, while its landscape became cosmopolitan.

Bucharest ( ; names in other languages ) is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania.

There are a number of cultural festivals in Bucharest throughout the year, in various domains, even though most festivals take place in the summer months of June, July and August.

Universities were opened in Iaşi and in Bucharest and the number of new cultural establishments grew significantly.

Irimescu's busts of Iorga are located in places of cultural importance: the ISSEE building in Bucharest and a public square in Chişinău, Moldova ( ex-Soviet Bessarabia ).

The following albums were produced by Fundaţia Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas in Bucharest, in association with Euroart, the cultural fund of the Department for European Integration of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs of Romania.

Janco's sketches of the Bucharest Pogrom are, according to cultural historian David G. Roskies, " extraordinary " and in complete break with Janco's " earlier surrealistic style "; he paraphrases the rationale for this change as: " Why bother with surrealism when the world itself has gone crazy?

After the peace signed in Bucharest, the rule of John Caradja brought a series of important cultural and social events ( the reformist Caragea law, the first hot air balloon ride in the country, the first theater play, the first cloth manufacture, and the first private printing press, Gheorghe Lazăr's educational activities ), but also witnessed the devastating Caragea's plague in 1813-1814-which made between 25, 000 and 40, 000 casualties.

The elaborate architecture and the city's status as cosmopolitan cultural center won Bucharest the nickname of " Paris of the East " ( or Micul Paris-" Little Paris ").

The book " Meetings with Solomon Marcus " ( Spandugino Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2010, 1500 pages ), edited by Lavinia Spandonide and Gheorghe Păun for Marcus 85th Birthday, includes recollections by several hundred people, from a large variety of scientific and cultural fields and 25 countries ; it contains also a longer autobiography.

He moved to Bucharest, capital of Romania and the center of cultural discourse.

In January 1941, the city was the scene of the Legionnaires ' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom.

When Goldfaden arrived in Bucharest in the spring of 1877 with his less-than-year-old troupe, the first professional Yiddish theater company, Mogulesko auditioned for him with a scene that became the basis for Goldfaden's play Shmendrik, or the Comical Wedding.

He returned to Europe and, in 1913, with the death of Boris Lieblich, became the director of the Jigniţa, which throughout World War I was a highlight of the distressed wartime Bucharest theater scene.

Teacher ( priest ) with class from the outskirts of Bucharest, around 1842.

The Treaty of Bucharest, which concluded the war, left Greece with southern Epirus, the southern half of Macedonia, Crete and the Aegean islands, except for the Dodecanese, which had been occupied by Italy in 1911.

In May 1918, Romania was in no position to continue the war, and negotiated a peace treaty with Germany ( see Treaty of Bucharest, 1918 ).

After representatives of the government met with leaders of the Jiu Valley coal miners union, thousands of miners were organized and arrived in Bucharest June 14.

In Bucharest, the temperature ranges from in January to in July, with average temperatures of in January and in July.

Also under construction are parts of A3-Autostrada Transilvania, which is the largest motorway project in Europe with a length of 588 km from Bucharest to Oradea ( near the Hungarian border ).

Now it is one of the most accessed systems of the Bucharest public transport network with an average of 800, 000 passengers during the workweek.

International passenger services exists between Bucharest and Kiev ( and onwards to Moscow ) via Vicşani ( operated by CFR, with UZ and RZD cars ) and between Sighetu Marmaţiei and Tereseva ( operated by UZ ).

Actor David Walliams reportedly entered talks with Gilliam to play a part in it, and was told that he'd have to " be willing to work with Johnny Depp and fly to Bucharest where the movie is to be filmed.

The Old Princely Court ( Curtea Veche ) was built by Mircea Ciobanul, and under subsequent rulers, Bucharest was established as the summer residence of the court, competing with Târgoviște for the status of capital after an increase in the importance of southern Muntenia brought about by the demands of the suzerain power, the Ottoman Empire.

Bucharest became a permanent location for the Wallachian court after 1698 ( starting with the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu ).

The extravagant architecture and cosmopolitan high culture of this period won Bucharest the nickname of " Little Paris " ( Micul Paris ), with Calea Victoriei as its Champs-Élysées.

Between 6 December 1916 and November 1918, the city was occupied by German forces as a result of the Battle of Bucharest, with the legitimate capital temporarily moved to Iași.

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 began with mass anti-Ceaușescu protests in Timișoara in December 1989 and continued in Bucharest, leading to the overthrow of the Communist regime.

As with many cities, Bucharest is traditionally considered to have seven hills, similar to the seven hills of Rome.

The powers of local government over a certain area are therefore shared by the Bucharest City Hall and the local sectoral councils with little or no overlapping of authority.

The Municipality of Bucharest, along with the surrounding Ilfov County, forms the Bucharest development region, which is equivalent to NUTS-II regions in the European Union and is used by the European Union and the Romanian Government for statistical analysis and regional development.

The violent crime rate in Bucharest remains very low, with 11 murders and 983 other violent offenses taking place in 2007.

Romania's largest stock exchange, the Bucharest Stock Exchange, which was merged in December 2005 with the Bucharest-based electronic stock exchange Rasdaq, plays a major role in the city's economy.