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Municipalities of Romania Towns of Romania. 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. comună) of Romania, grouped by macroregions (macroregiune; sing. macroregiunea), development regions (regiunile de dezvoltare; sing.
This category contains communes (excluding towns) and villages in Romania. There are 2,686 communes in Romania. For towns, see Towns in Romania and Cities in Romania
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.
A commune is made up of one or more villages which do not themselves have an administrative function. Communes, like cities, correspond to the European Union's level 2 local administrative unit (LAU). Florești, in Cluj County, is the largest commune in Romania by population, with over 22,000 inhabitants.
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.
There are several rural localities (communes and villages) which also have Roma populations exceeding 5% of the total population, even though those are not listed here. In localities where Roma make up more than 20% of the population, the Romani language can be used when addressing local authorities, while state-funded education and bilingual ...
During the twentieth century, a number of places in Romania had their names changed for various reasons. For instance, Brașov was called Orașul Stalin by the Communist regime in order to pay homage to the Soviet leader. Some of those names were changed back to the original; Brașov regained its old name as Romania's leadership began to ...