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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.
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]
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.
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.
WikiProject Economics or WikiProject Romania may be able to help recruit an expert. ( January 2022 ) This is a list of the 41 Romanian counties , and one city with special status ( Bucharest , the national capital) by GDP and GDP per capita .
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.
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. [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]
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.