Călăraşi County

Călăraşi
Călăraşi
	— County (Judet) —
	Landscape in Călăraşi County
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud
Historic region	Greater Wallachia
Capital city (Resedinta de judet)	Călăraşi
	Government
- Type	County Board
- President of the County Board	Răducu George Filipescu (National Liberal Party)
- Prefect2	Doru-Ioan Tărăcilă
	Area
- Total	5,088 km2 (1,964.5 sq mi)
	Population (2002)
- Total	324,617
- Density	64/km2 (165.8/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	91wxyz3
Area code(s)	+40 x424
Car Plates	CL5
GDP	US$ 2.09 billion (2008)
GDP/capita	US$ 6,446 (2008)
Website	County Board; 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

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This article is about Călăraşi County, Romania. For other uses, see Călăraşi (disambiguation).

Călăraşi (Romanian pronunciation: [kələˈraʃʲ]) is a county (judeţ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the county seat at Călăraşi.

Demographics

In 2002, it had a population of 324,617 and a population density of 64/km².

Romanians - 95%¹
Roma and others.

Year	County population²
1948	287,722
1956	318,573
1966	337,261
1977	338,807
1992	338,804
2002	324,617

List of cities by population

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

Calarasi(county's capital and largest city) - 73,823(as of 2005)
Oltenita - 27,217
Modelu(county's largest village) - 9,804
Budesti(with Crivăț village) - 9,709
Borcea(village) - 9,676
Dragalina(village) - 8,760
Chirnogi(village) - 8,131

The other two towns of Calarasi county(Lehliu-Gara and Fundulea) are having a population under 8,000 inhabitants.

Geography

This county has an area of 5,088 km².

The entire area lies the south 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 Argeş and Dâmboviţa form a wide valley before flowing into the Danube.