Călărași County

Călărași County

Județul Călărași
Călărași County Județul Călărași
County
	Landscape in Călărași County
	Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud
Historic region	Muntenia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Călărași
Created	1981
Government
• Type	County Board
• President of the County Board	Vasile Iliuță (National Liberal Party)
• Prefect2	George Iacob
Area
• Total	5,088 km2 (1,964 sq mi)
• Rank	28th in Romania
Population (2011)
• Total	285,050
• Rank	34th in Romania
• Density	56.02/km2 (145.1/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	91wxyz3
Area code	+40 x424
Car Plates	CL5
GDP	US$ 1.635 billion (2015)
GDP/capita	US$ 5,736 (2015)
Website	County Board; County Prefecture
	1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed as a way of managing 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 resigning (or being excluded) 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

Călărași (Romanian pronunciation: [kələˈraʃʲ] (listen)) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia. The capital of Călărași County is Călărași.