Baraolt

Baraolt Barót
—  Town  —
Location of Baraolt
Coordinates: 46°4′30″N 25°36′0″E / 46.075°N 25.6°E / 46.075; 25.6Coordinates: 46°4′30″N 25°36′0″E / 46.075°N 25.6°E / 46.075; 25.6
Country	Romania
County	Covasna County
Status	Town
Government
- Mayor	István Nagy (Independent)
Area
- Total	128.48 km2 (49.6 sq mi)
Population (2002)
- Total	9,670
Ethnicity
- Hungarians	95.87%
- Romanians	3.1%
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Website	Official site

Baraolt (Romanian pronunciation: [baraˈolt]; Hungarian: Barót, Hungarian pronunciation: [bɒroːt]) is a town and administrative district in Covasna County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The town was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1224. It administers five villages:

• Biborțeni / Bibarcfalva
• Bodoș / Bodos
• Căpeni / Köpec
• Micloșoara / Miklósvár
• Racoșul de Sus / Felsőrákos

Demographics

According to the 2002 Census, Baraolt has a population of 9,670 and an absolute Székely Hungarian majority (9,271 (95.87%) Hungarians, 300 (3.1%) Romanians, 84 Roma, 15 others).^[1] Approximately 47.9% of the town's inhabitants adhere to the Hungarian Reformed Church, while 29.9% follow Roman Catholicism, 16.8% consider themselves Unitarians and 2.6% are Romanian Orthodox.

The town has one high school and a provincial hospital with 82 beds. The hospital's specialties include internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynecology, and paediatrics; it also has an accident and emergency service.

Demographic movement according to the censuses:

External links

• (Romanian) About the town on Covasna County's Prefecture's Site
• (Hungarian) About the town on Covasna County's Concil's site

References

1. ^ Census data 2002

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