Galați County
Galați (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡaˈlatsʲ] ⓘ) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Moldavia region, with the capital city at Galați, between 45°25'N and 46°10'N latitude, 27°20'E and 28°10'E longitude. It borders the counties of Vaslui, Vrancea, Brăila, Tulcea. To the east it borders the Republic of Moldova, the border crossing points being Galați–Giurgiulești (road and broad gauge railway) and Oancea–Cahul (road). The county was established in 1968, through the territorial reorganization of the former Galați Region, which included a territory similar to that of the current Brăila and Galați counties, plus the northern part of Tulcea County.
Galați County
Județul Galați | |
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County | |
Brateș Lake | |
| Coordinates: 45.79°N 27.78°E | |
| Country | Romania |
| Development region1 | Sud-Est |
| Historic region | Moldavia |
| Capital city (Reședință de județ) | Galați |
| Government | |
| • Type | County Council |
| • President of the County Council | Costel Fotea |
| • Prefect2 | Gabriel-Ioan Avrămescu |
| Area | |
| • County | 4,466.3 km2 (1,724.4 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 34th in Romania (1.9%) |
| Population (2021 census) | |
| • County | 496,892 |
| • Rank | 15th in Romania |
| • Density | 111.25/km2 (288.1/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 259,071 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 80wxyz3 |
| Area code | +40 x364 |
| ISO 3166 code | RO-GL |
| Car Plates | GL5 |
| GDP | US$3.15 billion (2015) |
| GDP per capita | US$5,874 (2015) |
| Website | County Council County Prefecture |
| 1The developing regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed just to attract 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 to have any political activity in the first six months after the resignation (or exclusion) 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 | |
Galați County is part of the South-East Development Region (together with the counties of Vrancea, Buzău, Brăila, Constanța and Tulcea), of the Lower Danube Euroregion (together with the counties of Brăila and Tulcea, with the Cahul and Cantemir districts in the south of the Republic of Moldova and with the Odesa region in the west of Ukraine) as well as the Free Economic Zone Galați–Giurgiulești–Reni (Romania-Moldova-Ukraine).