Călărași County

Călărași County

Județul Călărași
Călărași County Județul Călărași
County
	Landscape in Călărași County
	Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud
Historic region	Muntenia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Călărași
Created	1981
Government
• Type	County Council
• President of the County Council	Vasile Iliuță [ro] (PSD)
• Prefect2	Valentin-Dumitru Deculescu [ro]
Area
• Total	5,088 km2 (1,964 sq mi)
• Rank	28th in Romania
Population (2021-12-01)
• Total	283,458
• Rank	34th in Romania
• Density	56.02/km2 (145.1/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	91wxyz3
Area code	+40 x424
Car Plates	CL5
GDP	US$1.635 billion (2015)
GDP/capita	US$5,736 (2015)
Website	County Council; County Prefecture
	1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed as a way of managing funds from the European Union; 2 as of 2007, the Prefect is not a politician, but a public functionary. He (or she) is not allowed to be a member of a political party, and is banned from having any political activity in the first six months after resigning (or being excluded) from the public functionary corps; 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

Călărași (Romanian pronunciation: [kələˈraʃʲ] ^ⓘ) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia, with the county seat at Călărași.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 285,050 and a population density of 56.02/km².

Romanians – 94.1%^[2]
Romani – 5.7%
Turks - 0.1%
Unknown - 0.1%

Year	County population^[3]
1948	287,722
1956	318,573
1966	337,261
1977	338,807
1992	338,844
2002	324,617
2011	285,050
2021	283,458

List of cities by population

All the data, except Călărași, is as of 2002.

Călărași (county's capital and largest city) – 73,823 (as of 2005)
Oltenița – 27,217
Modelu (county's largest village) – 9,804
Budești (with Crivăț village) – 9,709
Borcea (village) – 9,676
Dragalina (village) – 8,760
Chirnogi (village) – 8,131

The other two towns of Călărași county (Lehliu Gară and Fundulea) have a population under 8,000 inhabitants.

Geography

This county has an area of 5,088 km².

The entire area lies in the southern part of the Bărăgan Plain and is crossed by small rivers with deep valleys. On its southern and eastern sides there is the valley of the Danube which, on the eastern side, splits into a number of branches, forming islands, now drained. On the western side, the rivers Argeș and Dâmbovița form a wide valley before flowing into the Danube.