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    "ocrText": "CRET\nAPPENDIX A\nTOPOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE\n1. Topography.\nPloesti oil fields, and the most densely popu-\nRumania lies between the USSR and the\nlated part of the country. The Plain, and\nBalkan Peninsula and between the Hungarian\nespecially the eastern half, is the leading grain\nPlain and the Black Sea. It is roughly ellip-\n(corn and wheat) producing area in Rumania\ntical in shape and has an area of 91,670 square\n(see map No. 11140). Bucuresti (Bucharest),\nmiles. The longer east-west axis is about 400\nthe capital and largest city of Rumania, is\nmiles and the north-south about 300 miles.\nlocated on the Wallachian Plain. Most of the\narea is nearly level and less than 100 feet\nAn arc of mountains formed by the Car-\nabove sea level, but between Craiova and Bu-\npathians (Carpatii Orientali) and the Tran-\ncuresti is an area of rolling land with a few\nsylvania Alps (Carpatii Meridionali) crosses\nelevations as high as 400 feet. The many\nthe country, extending south from Ruthenia\ntributary rivers that flow south from the\nand curving sharply to the west in central\nmountains across the plain to the Danube\nRumania (see map No. 10809). The Wal-\nflood their banks in spring, but become nearly\nlachian Plain lies between the Transylvanian\ndry during the summer. The Danube mean-\nAlps and the Danube River. The Danube\nders along the southern border of a wide belt\nforms the southern boundary of Rumania\nof lakes and marshlands. In contrast, the\nfrom the village of Bazias, where the river\nBulgarian bank of the Danube is high and\ncomes out of Yugoslavia, to Silistra, where\nslopes abruptly to the river.\nthe frontier leaves the river to march south-\nThe Wallachian Plain is wooded near the\neastward toward Mangalia on the Black Sea.\nmountains, but trees become increasingly\nAt Galati, the river turns east again and flows\nsparse from north to south and are succeeded\nthrough its delta to the Black Sea. In east-\nern Rumania, there are also two low plateaus.\nby grasslands.\nThe Dobruja (Dobrogea) Plateau lies between\n(2) Danube Delta. The Danube River\nthe north-flowing section of the Danube and\nturns east at Galati (Galatz), the chief river\nthe Black Sea. Farther north, the Moldavian\nport and eleventh largest city of Rumania.\nPlateau is bounded by the Carpathians on the\nBeyond Tulcea, some forty miles farther east,\nwest and the Bessarabian Plateau on the\nthe belt of marshes and lakes along the river\nnorth and east. It is drained by the Siret and\nwidens into the large Danube Delta. Most of\nPrut rivers, south-flowing tributaries of the\nthis triangular area is intermittently flooded\nlower Danube, the latter of which is now the\nand even the exposed network of natural\nSoviet Union frontier. Inside the mountain\nlevees is in no place more than five feet above\narc is the Transylvanian Basin, which extends\nsea level. The central and straightest of the\nwest to the Bihor Mountains. West of the\nthree large river mouths, the Sulina, is the\nBihor Mountains a narrow margin of the large\nmain navigation route. The delta is of little\nMiddle Danube Plain extends into Rumania.\nimportance agriculturally and supports very\nfew people.\na. Southern and Eastern Plain and Pla-\n(3) Dobruja Plateau. The Dobruja Pla-\nteaus.\nteau lies to the east of the north-flowing sec-\n(1) Wallachian Plain. The Wallachian\ntion of the Danube. It is bordered along the\nPlain, economically the most important part\nDanube and the Black Sea by cliffs 300 to 400\nof Rumania, is an area of fertile soils that\nfeet high. Constanta, Rumania's chief sea\nsupport grain production, the site of the rich\nport, is located on a small sand bar along the\nNote: This Appendix is based on information available to CIA as of 1 August 1949.\nECRET\n53"
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