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Argeș County Județul Argeș
County
Vidraru Lake and Dam in northern Argeș County
Coat of arms
Location of Argeș County in Romania
Coordinates: 45°00′N 24°49′E / 45.0°N 24.82°E / 45.0; 24.82Coordinates: 45°00′N 24°49′E / 45.0°N 24.82°E / 45.0; 24.82
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud
Historic region	Muntenia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Pitești
Government
• Type	County Board
• President of the County Board	Constantin Nicolescu (PSD)
• Prefect2	Cristian Soare
Area
• Total	6,862 km2 (2,649 sq mi)
Area rank	10th in Romania
Population (2011 census[1])
• Total	612,431
• Rank	10th in Romania
• Density	89/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	11wxyz3
Area code(s)	+40 x484
ISO 3166 code	RO-AG
Car Plates	AG5
GDP	US$ 6.2 billion (2008)
GDP/capita	US$ 9,488 (2008)
Website	County Board County Prefecture
1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role and were formed in order to manage funds from the European Union. 2 as of 2007, the Prefect is not a politician, but a public functionary. He (or she) is not allowed to be a member of a political party, and is banned from having any political activity in the first six months after his resignation (or exclusion) from the public functionaries' corps. 3w, x, y, and z are digits that indicate the city, the street, part of the street, or even the building of the address 4x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks 5used on both the plates of the vehicles that operate only in the county limits (like utility vehicles, ATVs, etc.), and the ones used outside the county

Argeș County (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈard͡ʒeʃ] (listen)) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Pitești.

Demographics

On 20 October 2011, it had a population of 612,431 and the population density was 89/km².^[1]

• 
  Romanians – 97%


• 
  Roma (Gypsies), and other.

Year	County population[2][1]
1948	448,964
1956	483,741
1966	529,833
1977	631,918
1992	680,574
2002	652,625
2011	612,431

Geography

Landscape in central and southern Argeș County

This county has a total area of 6,862 km².
The landforms can be split into 3 distinctive parts. In the north side there are the mountains, from the Southern Carpathians group – the Făgăraș Mountains with Moldoveanu Peak (2,544 m), Negoiu Peak (2,535 m) and Vânătoarea lui Buteanu peak (2,508 m) towering the region, and in the North-East part the Leaotă Mountains. Between them there is a pass towards Brașov, the Rucăr-Bran Passage. The heights decrease, and in the center there are the sub-carpathian hills, with heights around 800 m, crossed with very deep valleys. In the south there is the northern part of the Romanian Plain.

The main river that crosses the county is the Argeș River in which almost all the other rivers coming from the mountains flow. In the south the main rivers are the Vedea River and the Teleorman River.

Neighbours

• 
  Dâmbovița County in the east.


• 
  Vâlcea County and Olt County in the west.


• 
  Sibiu County and Brașov County in the north.


• 
  Teleorman County in the south.

Economy

The county is one of the most industrialized counties in Romania. There is one oil refinery and two automobile plants at Mioveni – the Dacia Renault car plant, and at Câmpulung the ARO plant.

The predominant industries in the county are:

• Automotive


• Chemical


• Electrical equipment


• Home appliances


• Food


• Textiles


• Construction materials

Oil is being extracted in the center and in the south. Also there are a few coal mines and close to Mioveni there is a nuclear research and production facility making nuclear fuels for the Cernavodă Nuclear Electric Power Plant. On the Argeș River there are a great number of hydroelectric power plants, the most impressive being the Vidraru power plant and dam.

The hillsides are well suited for wines and fruit orchards, and the south is suited for cereal crops.

Tourism

The main tourist destinations are:

• The city of Pitești


• The city of Curtea de Argeș, where one of the most well known monasteries in Romania is located


• The Câmpulung – Rucăr area


• The Făgăraș Mountains – the Transfăgărășan
  


• The Leaota Mountains
  


• The Poienari Castle
  


• The Cotmeana monastery.

Politics

The Argeș County Council, elected at the 2016 local government elections, is made up of 35 counselors, with the following party composition:^[3]

Administrative divisions

1715 coat of arms of Argeș, Teleorman and Mehedinți counties on the frontispice of the Antim Monastery

Argeș County has 3 cities, 4 towns and 95 communes:

• Municipalities
  
  
  
  • Câmpulung
  
  
  • Curtea de Argeș
  
  
  • 
    Pitești – county seat; population: 148,264 (as of 2011)
  
  
  
  


• Towns
  
  
  
  • Costești
  
  
  • Mioveni
  
  
  • Ștefănești
  
  
  • Topoloveni
  
  
  
  

Historical county

Județul Argeș
County (Județ)
The Argeş County Prefecture building from the interwar period, now the Argeș County museum.
Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Historic region	Muntenia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Pitești
Area
• Total	4,216 km2 (1,628 sq mi)
Population (1930)
• Total	259,305
• Density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The county was located in the central-southern part of the Greater Romania, in the western part of the historic Muntenia region. Its territory comprised a large part of the current county, and a piece of the western part of the present Vâlcea County. It was bordered on the west by the counties of Olt and Vâlcea, to the north by the counties Făgăraș and Sibiu, to the east by the counties Muscel and Dâmbovița, and to the south by the counties Teleorman and Vlașca.

Administration

Map of Argeș County as constituted in 1938.

The county was originally (to 1925) divided administratively into five districts (plăṣi):^[4]

1. Plasa Argeș, headquartered at Curtea de Argeș
   


2. Plasa Dâmbovnic, headquartered at Rociu
   


3. Plasa Oltul, headquartered at Jiblea Veche
   


4. Plasa Teleorman, headuqartered at Costești
   


5. Plasa Uda, headquartered at Uda
   

Subsequently, Plasa Uda was divided into two districts, and some territory was transferred from Plasa Oltul:

5. Plasa Cuca, headquartered at Cuca, which town was formerly in Plasa Oltul


6. Plasa Pitești, headquartered at Pitești
   

Population

According to the 1930 census data, the county population was 257,378 inhabitants, out of which 97.6% were ethnic Romanians.^[5] From the religious point of view, the population was 99.1% Eastern Orthodox, 0.3% Roman Catholic, 0.3% Jewish, as well as other minorities.

Urban population

In 1930, the county's urban population was 26,341 inhabitants, comprising 90.4% Romanians, 2.2% Jews, 2.0% Hungarians, 1.7% Romanies, 1.1% Germans, as well as other minorities.^[5] From the religious point of view, the urban population was composed of 93.0% Eastern Orthodox, 2.4% Roman Catholic, 2.4% Jewish, 0.7% Reformed, 0.7% Lutheran, as well as other minorities.

References

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