Bihor County
Bihor (Hungarian: Bihar megye ) is a Romanian county ( Judet ) in Crisana with the county town of Oradea ( Oradea German, Hungarian Nagyvarad ). Its common abbreviation and the license plate number is BH.
The Bihor county is bordered on the north by the Satu Mare County, on the east by the circles Salaj and Cluj, on the south by the counties of Alba, and Arad, and to the west by Hungary.
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Demography
In 2002, Bihor had 600 223 inhabitants and a population density of 80 inhabitants per km ². It was the year of 291 613 male and 308 610 female population, and 969 foreigners (0.16 % of the population ).
2011 had the Bihor county 575 398 inhabitants thus a population density of 76 inhabitants per km ².
Ethnic Groups
The population is according to the 2002 census of the following ethnic groups:
- Romanians: 404 537 ( 67,40 %)
- Hungary: 155 554 ( 25.91% )
- Roma: 30 237 ( 5.00%)
- Slovaks: 7,361 (1.22 %)
- German: 1,137 (0.19 %)
- Jews: 242
- Ukrainians: 174
- Greeks: 71
- Russians: 63
- Bulgarians: 31
- Serbs: 31
- Poland: 21
- Turks: 15
- Czechs: 14
- Armenians: 11
- Croats: 3
Religion
The following religions are represented according to the 2002 census:
- Romanian- Orthodox: 357 996 ( 59.6 %)
- Refurbished: 107 817 ( 18.0 %)
- Roman Catholic Church: 55,555 (9.3%)
- Pentecostal: 34 460 (5.7%)
- Baptists: 22,366 (3.7%)
- Greek Catholics: 14,086 (2.3%)
- Seventh- day Adventist: 1,858 (0.3%)
- Atheists: 1,155 (0.2%)
- Jews: 210
- Moslems: 175
- Total number of Protestants: 166 501 ( 27.7 %)
Geography
The county has a total area of 7544 km ², equivalent to 3.16 % of the area of Romania. It is located in north-western Romania and the historical region of Transylvania on the western border with Hungary. Considered Topographical heard Bihor the Pannonian Plain, but for historical reasons to Transylvania - precisely the so-called Partium - calculated that only east of the Western Carpathians, however, lies in the strict sense. Another description of the area in which the Bihor county is located, is derived from the rivers from which flow from the Western Carpathians coming through his territory in the east-west direction, namely from the Fast Screaming (Romanian Crisul Repede ) and the Black Squawking (Romanian Crisul Negru ), which is why the region is (along with parts of the Arad county ) also called Crisana.
Cities and Towns
The Bihor County consists of 460 official settlements. Of these, 10 have the status of a city, 91 to a community. The rest are assigned to administrative cities and towns.