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A total of 41 counties (Romanian: județe), along with the municipality of Bucharest, constitute the official administrative divisions of Romania.They represent the country's NUTS-3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics – Level 3) statistical subdivisions within the European Union and each of them serves as the local level of government within its borders.
Save Romania Union (USR) Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS) Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) Humanist Power Party (PPU) Romanian Nationhood Party (PNR) Other ethnic-minority parties; Non-parliamentary People's Movement Party (PMP) PRO Romania (PRO) Greater Romania Party (PRM)
Currently, Romania has no NUTS-4 units, the counties being composed directly of cities (some of which with municipality status) and communes. As in all modern democracies, the political power in Romania is divided into three independent branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The prefect and his administration have only executive ...
NUTS 1 regions of Romania NUTS 2 regions of Romania NUTS 3 regions of Romania RO1 Macroregion one (Macroregiunea Unu) RO11 Nord-Vest RO111 Bihor County RO112 Bistrița-Năsăud County RO113 Cluj County RO114 Maramureș County RO115 Satu Mare County RO116 Sălaj County RO12 Centru RO121 Alba County RO122 Brașov County RO123 Covasna County RO124 ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Romania, ordered by population (largest to smallest) according to the 2002, 2011 and 2021 censuses. [1] For the major cities, average elevation is also given. Cities in bold are county capitals.
When modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia (parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by respectively the Habsburgs, 1775–1918, and the Russian Tsars, 1812–1917), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as model.
The regions represented the result of a Soviet-inspired experiment regarding the administrative and territorial organisation of the Romanian People's Republic (later Socialist Republic of Romania) between 1950 and 1968. See also: Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania.
[1] [2] Bistra, in Alba County, is the largest commune in Romania by surface area, covering an area of 138 km 2 (53 sq mi). [3] Other sources list Nucșoara , in Argeș County as the largest commune in Romania; this commune covers an area of 437.09 km 2 (168.76 sq mi).