Caraș-Severin County
Caraș-Severin County
Județul Caraș-Severin | |
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Caraș-Severin county, territorial location | |
| Coordinates: 45°09′N 22°04′E / 45.15°N 22.07°E | |
| Country | Romania |
| Development region1 | Vest |
| Historic region | Banat |
| Capital city (Reședință de județ) | Reșița |
| Government | |
| • Type | County Council |
| • President of the County Council | Romeo-Dan Dunca (PNL) |
| • Prefect2 | Ioan Dragomir |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,514 km2 (3,287 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 3rd in Romania |
| Population (2021-12-01) | |
• Total | 246,588 |
| • Rank | 32nd in Romania |
| • Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 32wxyz3 |
| Area code | +40 x554 |
| Car Plates | CS5 |
| GDP | US$4.100 billion (2025) |
| GDP per capita | US$16,626 (2025) |
| Website | County Council County Prefecture |
| 1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed to correspond to NUTS-II level subdivisions of the European Union member states and are the basis for development funding under the cohesion and convergence objectives of the EU's regional policy 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 any political activity in the first six months after resignation (or exclusion) from the public functionary 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 | |
Caraș-Severin (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkaraʃ seveˈrin] ⓘ) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Serbia. The majority of its territory lies within the historical region of Banat, with a few northeastern villages considered part of Transylvania. The county seat is Reșița. The Caraș-Severin county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion.