Călărași County
Călărași County
Județul Călărași | |
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Landscape in Călărași County | |
| 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 (PSD) |
| • Prefect2 | Valentin-Dumitru Deculescu |
| 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.