Constanța County

Constanța County Județul Constanța
County
Constanța Casino Decebal Plaza, Medgidia Mamaia Beach Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm
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Coordinates: 44°16′N 28°19′E / 44.27°N 28.31°E / 44.27; 28.31
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud-Est
Historic region	Dobruja
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Constanța
Government
• Type	County Council
• President of the County Council	Mihai LUPU (PNL)
• Prefect	Silviu-Iulian COȘA
Area
• Total	7,104 km2 (2,743 sq mi)
• Rank	8th in Romania
Population  (2021-12-01)[1]
• Total	655,997
• Rank	5th in Romania
• Density	92/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	90wxyz3
Area code	+40 x414
ISO 3166 code	RO-CT
Car Plates	CT5
GDP nominal	US$14.640 billion (2024)
GDP per capita	US$22,351 (2024)
Economy rank	3rd
Website	County Board County Prefecture
1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed just to attract funds from the European Union 2 as of 2007, the Prefect is not a politician, but a public official. He or she is not allowed to be a member of a political party and is forbidden from political activity in the first six months after the resignation (or exclusion) from the ranks of public officials 3w, x, y, and z are digits that indicate the city, the street, part of the street, or even the building of the address 4x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks 5used on both the plates of the vehicles that operate only in the county limits (like utility vehicles, ATVs, etc.), and the ones used outside the county

Constanța (Romanian pronunciation: [konˈstantsa] ^ⓘ) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named Constanța.

In 2021, it had a population of 655,997 and the population density was 92/km². The degree of urbanization is much higher (about 75%) than the Romanian average. In recent years the population trend is:

Year	County population[2][3]
1948	311,062
1956	369,940
1966	465,752
1977	608,817
1992	748,044
2002	715,151
2011	684,082
2021	655,997

The majority of the population are Orthodox Romanians. There are important communities of Muslim Turks and Tatars, remnants of the time of Ottoman rule. Currently the region is the centre of the Muslim minority in Romania. A great number of Aromanians have migrated to Dobruja in the last century, and they consider themselves a cultural minority rather than an ethnic minority. There are also Romani.

• Călărași County and Ialomița County are to the west.
• Tulcea County and Brăila County are to the north.
• Bulgaria (Dobrich Province and Silistra Province) are to the south.

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The predominant industries in the county are:

• Tourism
• Chemicals and petrochemicals
• Food and beverages
• Textiles
• Shipbuilding
• Construction materials
• Mechanical components
• Paper

Agriculture is an important part in the county's economy, with Constanța being the county with the largest irrigation systems in the country (more than 4,300 km² before 1989, now greatly reduced), cereals being the most important products. Also, the county is famous for its wines from the Murfatlar region.

At Cernavodă there is a nuclear power plant with two reactors, each of the CANDU type of Canadian design. The plant covers over 15% of the country's power demand.

The Port of Constanța is the largest port in Romania, the most important of the Black Sea and the 4th in Europe. It is linked with the Danube by the Danube-Black Sea Canal – the widest and deepest navigable channel in Europe, although it is not used to its full potential.

The Romanian Riviera along the coast of the Black Sea is the preferred destination for the summer holidays in Romania. The resorts are, from North to South:

• Năvodari
• Mamaia
• Eforie (North and South)
• Costinești
• Olimp
• Neptun
• Jupiter
• Cap Aurora
• Venus
• Saturn
• Mangalia
• 2 Mai
• Vama Veche

Also worth visiting are:

• The city of Constanța
• The mausoleum at Adamclisi^[specify]
• The Portița area

As of 27 September 2020, the elected President of the County Council is Mihai Lupu from PNL.^[7] In addition, in the wake of the 2020 Romanian local elections, the current Constanța County Council consists of 36 counsellors, with the following party composition:^[8]

Constanța County has 3 municipalities, 9 towns and 58 communes:

• Municipalities
  • Constanța – capital city; population: 283,872 (as of 2011)^[9]
  • Mangalia
  • Medgidia

Județul Constanța
County (Județ)
The Constanța County Prefect's building (1906–1949), currently used as headquarters of the Constanța military district[10]
Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Historic region	Dobruja
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Constanța
Established	1879
Ceased to exist	Administrative reform of 1950
Area
• Total	6,916 km2 (2,670 sq mi)
Population  (1930)
• Total	253,093
• Density	37/km2 (95/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Following the 1926 administrative reform, the borders of the historical county are identical to the ones of the current Constanța County, with the exception of the Ostrov and Lipnița communes, which were then administered by the Durostor County, the Baia commune, now part of Tulcea County, and the villages of Tereskondu, Pârâul Caprei, Fundeni, Pădureni, Saldu Alde and Enigea-Haidar, now in Bulgaria.

The county neighboured the Black Sea to the east, the counties of Tulcea and Brăila to the north, Ialomița to the west, Durostor to the south-west and Caliacra to the south.

The county originally consisted of four districts (plăși):^[11]

1. Plasa Dunărea
2. Plasa Mangalia
3. Plasa Ovidiu
4. Plasa Traian

Subsequently, the territory of the county was reorganized into seven districts:

1. Plasa Cernavodă, headquartered in Cernavodă
2. Plasa Dunărea, headquartered in Hârșova
3. Plasa Ferdinand, headquartered in Constanța
4. Plasa Mangalia, headquartered in Mangalia
5. Plasa Negru-Vodă, headquartered in Negru Vodă
6. Plasa Traian, headquartered in Ion Corvin
7. Plasa Medgidia, headquartered in Medgidia

On the territory of Constanta County there were seven urban localities: Constanţa (with city status) and the urban communes of Carmen-Sylva, Techirghiol, Mangalia, Medgidia, Cernavodă and Hârșova.

After the 1938 Administrative and Constitutional Reform, this county merged with the counties of Ialomița, Durostor and Caliacra to form Ținutul Mării. It was re-established in 1940 after the fall of Carol II's regime. Ten years later, it was abolished by the Communist regime.

According to the census data of 1930, the county's population was 253,093 inhabitants, of which 66.2% were Romanians, 8.9% Bulgarians, 6.8% Turks, 6.0% Tatars, 3.8% Germans, 1.8% Greeks, 1.5% Russians, 1.3% Armenians, as well as other minorities.^[12] In religion, the population consisted of 78.9% Eastern Orthodox, 13.1% Islam, 2.5% Lutheran, 1.8% Roman Catholics, as well as other minorities.^[13]

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In 1930, the urban population of the county was 81,631 inhabitants, 68.7% Romanians, 7.3% Turks, 5.2% Greeks, 3.9% Armenians, 2.5% Germans, 2.2% Jews, 2.0% Tatars, 2.0% Bulgarians, 1.7% Russians, 1.7% Hungarians, as well as other minorities. Among the urban population, mother tongues were reported to be Romanian (72.0%), Turkish (9.7%), Greek (4.5%), Armenian (3.6%), German (2.4%), as well as other minorities. From the religious point of view, the urban population was composed mostly of Eastern Orthodox (78.4%), followed by Muslim (9.6%), Armenian Apostolic (3.3%), Roman Catholic (2.7%), Jewish (2.3%), Lutheran (1.6%), as well as other minorities.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Constanța County.

• (in Romanian) memoria.ro, Interwar Constanța County