Bucharest
About Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.71 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.31 million residents, which makes Bucharest the 9th most-populous city by population within city limits in the European Union. The city has an area of 240 km2 (93 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 1,811 km2 (699 sq mi). The city proper is administratively known as the "Municipality of Bucharest", and has the same administrative level as that of a national county, being further subdivided into six sectors, each governed by a local mayor. Bucharest is a major cultural, political and economic hub, the country's seat of government, and the capital of the Muntenia region. It is an enclave completely surrounded by Ilfov County.
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There is a site called BucharestNotBudapest.com which collects all the different times when people have mixed it up, and Iron Maiden, Metallica and Lenny Kravitz have all mistaken Bucharest for Budapest on stage.
from 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive, 2015-08-21 at 00:28:28 · read transcript
Other times Bucharest came up
Much like Jeremy Clarkson I know he didn't do that he built some rail tracks he basically built more mini railways didn't he that he so he could sort of roll them along into their new area so if you go to Bucharest now then you can see these old buildings sort of hiding behind the huge ugly new soviet ones there'll be a lovely little church suddenly so the actually that parliament that was built you know that everything else was being demolished and.
273: No Such Thing As A Scuba Diver Covered With Meat, 2019-06-14 · listen
Guy when you're wow I mean this this dog was called Corbu he was really loved by Ceausescu so much so that the Romanian ambassador in London used to go to Sainsbury's every week to buy Winnellott Prime to send back to Bucharest in a diplomatic bag wow yeah he was crazy he used and in fact the guy you order Ceausescu got permission to move all of these buildings but Ceausescu was so impatient to knock them down that he knocked a lot of.
273: No Such Thing As A Scuba Diver Covered With Meat, 2019-06-14 · listen
The very next day, the order came in for the hospital to be demolished, All because this corporal dog had been beaten up by a cat. At what point do you realize you are the bad guy when you're... Wow. This dog was called Corbu. He was really loved by Chowcesterscu, so much so that the Romanian ambassador in London used to go to Sainsbury's every week to buy Winnet Prime to send back to Bucharest in a diplomatic bag. Wow. He was crazy. He used...
No Such Thing As A Scuba Diver Covered With Meat, 2019-06-14 · listen
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