Covasna County
Covasna is a Romanian county ( Judet ) in the region of Transylvania ( Transylvania ) with the county capital Sfântu Gheorghe. Its common abbreviation and the license plate number are CV.
The Covasna county is bordered on the north by the Harghita County, in the north- east by the county Bacau, on the east by the county of Vrancea, further to the east and the south by the county of Buzău and in the west and in the south west of the county of Braşov.
Demography
Covasna is by population the smallest circle of Romania. In 2002, the Covasna County 222 449 inhabitants and a population density of 60 inhabitants per km ². 75 % of the population had Hungarian as their mother tongue, 24 % Romanian.
2011 had the circle 210 177 inhabitants, thus a population density of 57 inhabitants per km ².
Geography
The county has a total area of 3705 km ², equivalent to 1.55 % of the area of Romania. Located in the southeast of the Transylvanian Basin, the Covasna county is in Bodoc - and in Baraolt Mountains and is crossed from north to south from the river Olt (Alt ).
Cities and Towns
The Covasna county consists of officially 128 villages. Of these, five city status, 40 to a community. The rest are assigned to administrative cities and towns.