Consiliul Judetean Calarasi

The area of Calarasi County is 5088 squared km, representing 2, 1% of the area of the whole country, Calarasi County being the 28th in Romania, according to this criterion.

Territorial and administrative organization: 2 municipalities, 3 towns, 50 communes and 156 villages.

The capital of the county is Calarasi.

Population is represented by 318.360 inhabitants (1, 4% of the country?s population). Considering their residence, 39% live in the urban area and the rest of 61% at the countryside. Urbanisation level is under the national average.

Ethnically, 94, 12 % of the population are Romanians, the minorities representing 5, 88%, of which 5, 65% represented by Gypsies and 0, 15 % by Turkish.

Religiously, 98, 8% of Calarasi County?s populations belong to Christian Orthodox Church, others having various confessions.

Relief forms met in Calarasi County is are plain, meadow and pools. The plain is represented by 4 major units: Mostistea?s Plain (Southern Baragan), Vlasia?s Plain, Burnaz Plain, Danube?s Meadow.

Climate is homogeneous temperate continental, as a consequence of the uniformity of plain form of relief, characterised by hot summers and very cold winters. The extreme southern part, the climate is specific to the Danube?s meadow, with hotter summers and milder winters comparing to the rest of the plain.
Hydrographical network is represented by two hydrographical basins, the ones of Danube and Arges, and one sub basin, of the small river of Mostistea. River Danube, which is the limit of the county in the South and South-East, is divided in two branches between the km 300 (Cernavoda) and km 450 (Gostinu): Borcea on the left and Dunarea Veche on the right, which hold between them Ialomita?s Pool and the Big Island of Ialomita.