Hunedoara County
Hunedoara is a Romanian county ( Judet ) in Transylvania, with the county seat Deva. Its common abbreviation and the license plate number are HD.
The Hunedoara county is bordered on the north and on the east by the Alba County, in the southeast on the circle Vâlcea, to the south by the Gorj county, on the west by the circles Caras -Severin, Timiş and Arad, at the latter also in the northwest.
Demography
2011 had the Hunedoara County 418 565 inhabitants, thus a population density of 59 inhabitants per km ².
Geography
The county has a total area of 7,063 km ², which represents 2.96 % of the area of Romania. Located in the south-west of Transylvania, in the historical region of Hunyad county (county iron market ) and north of the historic Oltenia the so-called Lesser Wallachia, is the southern portion of the circle in the mountains Retezat and Sureanu; both are part of the Transylvanian Alps. The center of the circle is located in the valley of the Mures ( Mures ), the northern part of the Transylvanian Erzgebirge.
The largest rivers of the district are the current flowing in an east-west direction Mureş, whose inflows Strei, Orăştie and Cerna and south of the Jiu ( Shield ).
Cities and Towns
The circle consists of Hunedoara officially 486 villages. Of these, 14 have the status of a city, 55 to a community. The rest are assigned to administrative cities and towns.