Municipiu

A municipiu (from Latin municipium) is a level of administrative subdivision in Romania, roughly equivalent to city in some English-speaking countries. This status is given to towns that are quite large and urbanized. There is no clear benchmark regarding the status of municipiu, even though it applies to localities which have a sizeable population, usually above 15,000, and extensive urban infrastructure. Localities which do not meet these loose guidelines are classified only as towns (oraşe), or if they are not urban areas, as communes (comune). Cities are governed by a mayor. There are no official administrative subdivisions of cities, even though, unofficially, municipalities may be divided into quarters/districts (cartiere in Romanian). The exception to this is Bucharest, which has a status similar to that of a county, and is officially subdivided into six administrative sectors.

Largest

Here is a list of the largest cities in Romania:

view · talk · edit view · talk · edit Largest cities of Romania July 1, 2010 estimates[1]
	Rank	City Name	County	Pop.	Rank	City Name	County	Pop.
Bucharest Timișoara	1	Bucharest	Bucharest	1,942,254	11	Oradea	Bihor	204,477	Iaşi Cluj-Napoca
	2	Timișoara	Timiş	311,428	12	Bacău	Bacău	177,087
	3	Iaşi	Iaşi	309,631	13	Piteşti	Argeş	166,893
	4	Cluj-Napoca	Cluj	305,636	14	Arad	Arad	166,003
	5	Constanţa	Constanţa	301,221	15	Sibiu	Sibiu	154,548
	6	Craiova	Dolj	298,740	16	Târgu Mureş	Mureş	145,151
	7	Galaţi	Galaţi	290,593	17	Baia Mare	Maramureş	139,154
	8	Braşov	Braşov	276,914	18	Buzău	Buzău	132,210
	9	Ploieşti	Prahova	227,194	19	Botoşani	Botoşani	116,110
	10	Brăila	Brăila	210,245	20	Satu Mare	Satu Mare	112,705

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County	Common Abbrev	Cities	Year granted status
Alba	AB	Alba Iulia Aiud Blaj Sebeş	1968 1994 1993 2000
Arad	AR	Arad	1925/1968
Argeş	AG	Piteşti Câmpulung Curtea de Argeş	1968 1994 1995
Bacău	BC	Bacău Oneşti Moineşti	1929/1968 1968 2001
Bihor	BH	Oradea Beiuş Marghita Salonta	1925/1968 2003 2003 2001
Bistriţa-Năsăud	BN	Bistriţa	1979
Botoşani	BT	Botoşani Dorohoi	1968 1994
Braşov	BV	Braşov Făgăraş Codlea Săcele	1925/1968 1979 2000 2000
Brăila	BR	Brăila	1925/1968
Buzău	BZ	Buzău Râmnicu Sărat	1968 1994
Caraş-Severin	CS	Reşiţa Caransebeş	1968 1995
Călăraşi	CL	Călăraşi Olteniţa	1968 1997
Cluj	CJ	Cluj-Napoca Turda Dej Câmpia Turzii Gherla	1925/1968 1968 1968 1998 2000
Constanţa	CT	Constanţa Mangalia Medgidia	1925/1968 1995 1994
Covasna	CV	Sfântu Gheorghe Târgu Secuiesc	1979 2000
Dâmboviţa	DB	Târgovişte Moreni	1968 2003
Dolj	DJ	Craiova Băileşti Calafat	1925/1968 2001 1997
Galaţi	GL	Galaţi Tecuci	1925/1968 1968
Giurgiu	GR	Giurgiu	1968
Gorj	GJ	Târgu Jiu Motru	1968 2000
Harghita	HR	Miercurea Ciuc Gheorgheni Odorheiu Secuiesc Topliţa	1979 2003 1968 2002
Hunedoara	HD	Deva Hunedoara Brad Lupeni Orăştie Petroşani Vulcan	1968 1968 1995 2003 1995 1968 2003
Ialomiţa	IL	Slobozia Feteşti Urziceni	1979 1995 1995
Iaşi	IS	Iaşi Paşcani	1925/1968 1995
Ilfov	IF	none
Maramureş	MM	Baia Mare Sighetu Marmaţiei	1968 1968
Mehedinţi	MH	Drobeta-Turnu Severin Orşova	1968 2000
Mureş	MS	Târgu Mureş Sighişoara Reghin Târnăveni	1925/1968 1968 1994 1998
Neamţ	NT	Piatra Neamţ Roman	1968 1968
Olt	OT	Slatina Caracal	1979 1994
Prahova	PH	Ploieşti Câmpina	1925/1968 1994
Satu Mare	SM	Satu Mare Carei	1925/1968 1995
Sălaj	SJ	Zalău	1979
Sibiu	SB	Sibiu Mediaş	1925/1968 1968
Suceava	SV	Suceava Fălticeni Rădăuţi Câmpulung Moldovenesc Vatra Dornei	1968 1994 1994 1995 2000
Teleorman	TR	Alexandria Roşiorii de Vede Turnu Măgurele	1979 1995 1968
Timiş	TM	Timişoara Lugoj	1925/1968 1968
Tulcea	TL	Tulcea	1968
Vaslui	VS	Vaslui Bârlad Huşi	1979 1968 1995
Vâlcea	VL	Râmnicu Vâlcea Drăgăşani	1968 1995
Vrancea	VN	Focşani Adjud	1968 2000
Bucureşti	B	Bucureşti	1925/1968

The status was not used between 1950 and 1968, so that cities granted it prior to 1950 had it reassigned in 1968.

References

1. ^ "Largest Romanian cities in 2010" (in Romanian). evz.ro. August 28, 2011. http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/iasi-sau-timisoara-care-este-cel-de-al-doilea-mare-oras-din-romania-dupa-bucuresti-943339.html. Retrieved August 28, 2011.