Galaţi
county seat in Galați County, Romania From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
county seat in Galați County, Romania From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galaţi (pronounced [gaˈlaʦʲ] in Romanian, Turkish: Kalas; German: Galatz; Polish: Gałacz English: simply Galati) is a city in the eastern part of Romania, in the historical region of Moldavia. It is the capital city of Galaţi County.
Galaţi | |
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Coordinates: 45°25′24″N 28°2′33″E | |
Country | Romania |
County | Galaţi County |
Status | County capital |
Government | |
• Mayor | Dumitru Nicolae (Social Democratic Party) |
Area | |
• City | 246.3 km2 (95.1 sq mi) |
Population (2002) | |
• City | 298,861 |
• Density | 1,213/km2 (3,140/sq mi) |
• Metro | roughly 600,000 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Website | http://www.primaria.galati.ro/ |
It lies on the west bank of the Danube River, near Moldova and Ukraine.
As of 2011, about 196,003 people lived in Galaţi.[1] But in 2016, 304,000 people were living in Galaţi.
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