Constanţa metropolitan area

Constanţa metropolitan area
—  Metropolitan area  —
Country	Romania
County	Constanţa
Central Municipality	Constanţa
Cities	Năvodari, Ovidiu, Eforie, Murfatlar, Techirghiol
Other localities	Mihail Kogălniceanu, Cumpăna, Valu lui Traian, Lumina, Tuzla, Agigea, Corbu, Poarta Albă
Functional	2007
Area
– Total	1,013.5 km2 (391.3 sq mi)
Population
– Total	446,595
– Density	441/km2 (1,142.2/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
– Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	90wxyz1
Area code(s)	+40 x412
Website	http://www.zmc.ro/
1w, x, y, and z are digits that indicate the street, part of the street, or even the building of the address 2x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks

The Constanţa metropolitan area, is a metropolitan area, established in 2007, that includes the municipality of Constanţa, the cities of Năvodari, Ovidiu, Eforie, Murfatlar, Techirghiol and 8 communes: (Mihail Kogălniceanu, Cumpăna, Valu lui Traian, Lumina, Tuzla, Agigea, Corbu and Poarta Albă). It has a population of 446,595^[1] in an area consisting of 16% of Constanţa County.

Such administrative arrangement existed in an approximative similarity before 1989, when Constanţa Municipality included also the city of Mangalia and the communes 23 August and Limanu, together with all the summer resorts located between 23 August and Mangalia (the so-called "Mangalia Nord" resorts area).

However this administrative reform exists only on paper, nothing being done so far to put this decision into practice (e.g. unified local administration and transportation)^{[citation needed]}.

References

1. ^ "Populaţia stabilă la 1.01.2009" (in Romanian). INSSE. May 19, 2009. http://www.insse.ro/cms/rw/resource/populatia%20stabila%20la%201%20ianuarie%202009%20si%2018.xls?download=true. Retrieved May 25, 2009. 

• "Anuarul statistic al judeţului Constanţa" - 1986, Direcţia Judeţeana de Statistică Constanţa
• http://www.telegrafonline.ro/1162418400/articol/12931/zona_metropolitana_constanta_oficial_din_decembrie.html
• http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=9332&art=24670&cHash=a0633c86ec
• http://www.amosnews.ro/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=204521&theme=Printer
• http://www.9am.ro/stiri-revista-presei/Social/55315/Constanta-prima-metropola-a-tarii
• http://www.primaria-constanta.ro/PrimariaConstanta/Machete/Macheta2.aspx?paginaID=201&titluID=6&detaliuID=563