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București, Bucharest in English, is a city with 2.1 million metropolitan residents (1.9 million in the city proper)
The city's tallest building is the 37 story Sky Tower, completed in 2012 and housing offices. Other structures of note are the Arcul de Triumf, an arch celebrating the nation's independence and the Art Deco 'Telephone Palace,' both from the 1930s; and the Neoclassical 'Palace of the Parliament,' which was completed in 1988. More loved is the Cișmigiu Gardens, surrounding an artificial lake.
The Henri Coandă International Airport is the nation's busiest.
| Year | Population | Political entity |
| 1700 CE | 50,000| Devlet-i 'Aliyye-yi 'Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire) | |
| 1800 CE | 35,000| Devlet-i 'Aliyye-yi 'Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire) | |
| 1900 CE | 282,000| Regatul României (Kingdom of Romania) | |
| 2000 CE | 2,315,000| România | |
1. 2012 calculation, world-gazetteer.com, accessed 1/21/2013.
2. The Iaolomița is a left bank tributary of the Argeș, which is a left bank feeder of the Dunarêa (Dunav, Danube) River.
3. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Cities of Europe" tables. București has been the largest city in what is now România since 1700.
4. Chandler,
5. Derivation of this metropolitan estimate: city proper was 2,068,000 in 1992 and 1,922,000 in 2002, a negative growth rate of .0152 over each two years; the 2002 metropolitan figure was 2,280,000--the 1992 figure was unavailable; adding an increment of .0152 yields 2,315,000. Figures from world-gazetteer.com, accessed 1/21/2013.