Argeș County
Argeș County (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈardʒeʃ] ⓘ) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Pitești.
Argeș County
Județul Argeș | |
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County | |
Vidraru Lake and Dam in northern Argeș County | |
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Coat of arms | |
Location of Argeș County in Romania | |
| Coordinates: 45.0°N 24.82°E | |
| Country | Romania |
| Development region1 | Sud |
| Historic region | Muntenia |
| Capital city (Reședință de județ) | Pitești |
| Government | |
| • Type | County Board |
| • President of the County Board | Ion Mînzînă (PSD) |
| • Prefect2 | Radu Perianu |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,862 km2 (2,649 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 10th in Romania |
| Population (2021-12-01) | |
| • Total | 569,932 |
| • Rank | 10th in Romania |
| • Density | 83/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 11wxyz3 |
| Area code | +40 x484 |
| ISO 3166 code | RO-AG |
| Car Plates | AG5 |
| GDP | US$4.763 billion (2015) |
| GDP/per capita | US$7,780 (2015) |
| Website | County Board County Prefecture |
| 1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role and were formed in order to manage 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 his resignation (or exclusion) from the public functionaries' 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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