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Romania's administration is relatively centralised and administrative subdivisions are therefore fairly simplified.

According to the Constitution of Romania, its territory is organized administratively into communes, towns and counties:[1]

  • At the county level: 41 counties, and one municipality with a special status (Bucharest, the national capital)
  • At the city/commune level: 211 cities and 103 municipalities (for urban areas), and 2827 communes (for rural areas).[2] Municipality status is given to larger cities; the administrations of municipalities have more local authonomy than cities.

Beyond the communal and city or municipal level, there are no further formal administrative subdivisions. However, communes are divided into villages (villages have no administration of their own). There are 13,092 villages in Romania. The only exception if Bucharest, which has 6 sectors, each with an administration of its own.

[edit] Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)

Main article: NUTS of Romania

For statistical and development purposes, Romania, in the NUTS scheme, is divided into:

  • NUTS I level: 4 macroregions (macroregiune in Romanian), used for appropriation of European development funds
  • NUTS II level: 8 development regions, with an average population of 2.8 million inhabitants per region, although not administrative divisions per se, have been used for decades for statistical purposes by the Romanian National Commission of Statistics (NCS). Recently they also exist to co-ordinate regional development and appropriation of European development funds
  • NUTS III level: 41 counties and one municipality (Bucharest, the national capital) reflecting Romania's official administrative-territorial structure
  • LAU I level: not used, as territorial units associations have not been identified yet;
  • LAU II level: 211 cities and 103 municipalities (for urban areas), and 2,827 communes (for rural areas), according to some sources,[2] or 265 cities and towns and 2,686 communes with 13,092 villages, according to others.

An exception to this structure is the Municipality of Bucharest, which is a secondary division (rather than a tertiary division like other municipalities) and is officially divided into six sectors, each sector having a local government and counsil.

The eight development regions (specific territorial entities without administrative status or legal personality) represent the framework for collecting specific statistical data, according to the European regulations issued by Eurostat for the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) II territorial level. According to the Emergency Government Ordinance No 75/2001 on the functioning of the National Institute for Statistics, eight Directorates General for regional statistics have been created, and together with the 34 county directorates for statistics, aim at developing regional statistics. Officially, the eight regions are North-East, South-East, South, South-West, West, North-West, Center, and Bucharest. The criteria used by NCS for delimiting the regions is a combination of geographical location and homogeneity based on population density. Alternative historical names are also used, but remain unofficial.

no type name area, km2 population municipalities other cities communes villages
1 North-East development region 36,850 17 29 505 2,414
1 county Bacău County 6,621 3 5 85 491
2 county Botoşani County 4,986 2 5 71 333
3 county Iaşi County 5,476 2 3 93 418
4 county Neamţ County 5,896 2 3 78 344
5 county Suceava County 8,553 5 11 97 379
6 county Vaslui County 5,318 3 2 81 449
2 South-East development region 35,762 11 24 354 1,447
7 county Brăila County 4,766 1 3 40 140
8 county Buzău County 6,103 2 3 82 475
9 county Constanţa County 7,071 3 9 58 188
10 county Galaţi County 4,466 2 2 60 180
11 county Tulcea County 8,499 1 4 46 133
12 county Vrancea County 4,857 2 3 68 331
3 South development region 34,453 16 32 519 2,019
13 county Argeş County 6,826 3 4 95 576
14 county Călăraşi County 5,088 2 3 50 160
15 county Dâmboviţa County 4,054 2 5 82 353
16 county Giurgiu County 3,526 1 2 51 167
17 county Ialomiţa County 4,453 3 4 59 127
18 county Prahova County 4,716 2 12 90 405
19 county Teleorman County 5,790 3 2 92 231
4 South-West development region 29, 212 11 29 408 2,066
20 county Dolj County 7,414 3 4 104 378
21 county Gorj County 5,602 2 7 61 411
22 county Mehedinţi County 4,933 2 3 61 344
23 county Olt County 5,498 2 6 104 377
24 county Vâlcea County 5,765 2 9 78 556
5 West development region 32,034 12 30 278 1,327
25 county Arad County 7,754 1 9 68 270
26 county Caraş-Severin County 8,520 2 6 69 287
27 county Hunedoara County 7,063 7 7 55 457
28 county Timiş County 8,697 2 8 86 313
6 North-West development region 34,159 15 28 401 1,799
29 county Bihor County 7,544 4 6 90 429
30 county Bistriţa-Năsăud County 5,355 1 3 58 235
31 county Cluj County 6,674 5 1 75 420
32 county Maramureş County 6,304 2 11 63 214
33 county Satu Mare County 4,418 2 4 58 220
34 county Sălaj County 3,864 1 3 57 281
7 Center development region 34,100 20 37 357 1,788
35 county Alba County 6,242 4 7 67 656
36 county Braşov County 5363 4 6 48 149
37 county Covasna County 3710 2 3 40 122
38 county Harghita County 6639 4 5 58 235
39 county Mureş County 6714 4 7 91 464
40 county Sibiu County 5432 2 9 53 162
8 Bucharest-Ilfov development region 1,821 1 8 32 91
41 county Ilfov County 1,583 - 8 32 91
42 municipality Bucharest 238 1 - - -
Total 238,391 N/A 103 217 2,854 12,951

[edit] References

  • Law 151/1998 regarding the regional development in Romania was published in “Monitorul Oficial” on July 16, 1998, being approved by the Romanian Parliament. MIE Chapter 21
  1. ^ Constitution of Romania, Title I, article 3
  2. ^ a b http://www.insse.ro/cms/files/pdf/ro/cap1.pdf
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Administrative divisions of Romania
NUTS–I Macroregiunea 1 Macroregiunea 2 Macroregiunea 3 Macroregiunea 4
Map of the administrative divisions of Romania
NUTS–II
(regions)		 North-West
(green)		 Center
(gray)		 North-East
(yellow)		 South-East
(purple)		 South–Muntenia
(orange)		 Bucharest–
Ilfov
(brown)		 South-West
Oltenia
(blue)		 West
(red)
NUTS–III
(counties)
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