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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.
Here is a list of all local administrative units (localități; sing. localitate), which are the municipalities (municipii; sing. municipiu), cities (orașe; sing. oraș) and communes (comune; sing.
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.
[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).
In 1923 Romania adopted a new Constitution, and in 1927 it uniformized the traditional administrative systems of Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia with that of the Romanian Old Kingdom. County borders were kept largely intact, with only a couple minor adjustments, as a total of 71 județe existed between 1927 and 1938.
This is a list of municipalities in Romania which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Metropolitan areas in Romania The first to be established was the metropolitan area of Iași , on 8 April 2004, while the last is that of Drobeta-Turnu Severin , on 28 August 2019. There are 24 metropolitan areas in Romania that have been constituted as of 2019.
The table is ordered alphabetically, but can be sorted according to the results of each census. The National Institute of Statistics in Romania considered the following reference dates: 25 January 1948; February 21, 1956; March 15, 1966; January 5, 1977; January 7, 1992 [n 1] March 18, 2002 [n 2] October 20, 2011; December 1, 2021 [1] [2]