Atlas of Romania

General maps

Hartă generală a României
Übersichtskarte von Rumänien
General map of Romania
Carte générale de la Roumanie

Harta fizică şi generală a României
Physical and general map
Carte physique et générale de la Roumanie

Harta României
Karte von Rumänien
Map of Romania
Carte de la Roumanie

Harta României
Map of Romania in Romanian
Carte de la Roumanie en langue Roumaine

Románia térkép
Harta României în limba maghiară.
Same map in Hungarian
Même carte en hongrois

Hartă topografică a României
Relief map of Romania

Harta fizică
Physical map

Câmpia Dunării
Walachische Tiefebene
The Walachian Plain
La plaine de Valachie

Harta hidrografică a României
Karte der Flüsse in Rumänien
Rivers map
Carte des fleuves en Roumanie

Topographic map

Mountains of Romania

The Eastern Carpathian mountains

The Turning Carpathian mountains

The Southern Carpathian (Transylvanian Alpine) mountains

The Western Carpathian mountains (Apuseni or Bihor, and Banat ranges)

The Harghita volcanic mountains

The hercynian Măcin range in Dobruja, Romania

Romanian railway system

Romanian national roads

Historical regions

Historical regions coloured

Regions of Greater Romania with counties of 1930

Historical regions within contemporary Romania

Transylvania, Banat, Crişana and Maramureş in Romania
Banat in Romania
Transylvania in Romania
Crişana in Romania
Maramureş in Romania
Dobrudja in Romania
Wallachia in Romania
Oltenia in Romania
Oltenia in Walachia
Muntenia in Romania
Muntenia in Walachia
Moldavia and Bucovina in Romania
Moldavia in Romania
(Southern) Bucovina in Romania

Maps of divisions

This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.

Euro-Regions

Development regions and counties

Centru development region
Nord-Est development region
Nord-Vest development region
Sud development region
Sud-Est development region
Sud-Vest development region
Vest development region

Counties of Romania with their capital cities

Counties of Romania

The counties with their capital cities

Alba county
Arad county
Argeş county
Bacău county
Bistriţa-Năsăud county
Bihor county
Botoşani county
Brăila county
Braşov county
Buzău county
Călăraşi county
Caraş-Severin county
Cluj county
Constanţa county
Covasna county
Dâmboviţa county
Dolj county
Galaţi county
Giurgiu county
Gorj county
Harghita county
Hunedoara county
Ialomiţa county
Iaşi county
Ilfov county
Maramureş county
Medehinţi county
Mureş county
Neamţ county
Olt county
Prahova county
Sălaj county
Satu Mare county
Sibiu county
Suceava county
Teleorman county
Timiş county
Tulcea county
Vâlcea county
Vaslui county
Vrancea county
Bucharest municipality

Communes of Romania

Administrative map of the Romanian Orthodox Church

Administrative map of the Romanian Greek-Catholic (Uniate) Church

Administrative map of the Romanian Roman-Catholic Church

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Romania, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Romania.

The Thraco-Illyrians

Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of Dacia

The Roman empire at its greatest extend

The Roman Empire in 117

The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;

133 BC

44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)

AD 14 (death of Augustus)

117 (maximum extension)

Roman era Balkans

Dacia 82 B.C.

Map of the Roman Empire in 116

Dacia in the Roman Empire (116))

Moesia Inferior in the Roman Empire (116))

Roman Empire in 117

Dacia in the Roman Empire

The roman province Dacia

Kingdom of the Gepids in the 6th century (539-551)

Origins of the Romanians

Vlachs (Romanians) in the territory of present-day Romania in the 6th-8th century (according to the historical atlas for schools, published in Belgrade in 1970, representing a view of Yugoslav historians from that time)

The vlach-bulgarian kingdom under Ivan Assen/Ioan Asan II, 1218-41

The campaigns of Ivan Assen/Ioan Asan II

The wallachian & bulgarian states under the Tsar Todor Svetoslav (1307)

Principality of Walachia XIV - XVth century

Principality of Walachia during Mircea the Elder (after 1404)

Amlaş and Făgăraş duchies XIVth-XVth centuries

Growth of the Ottoman Empire, without differentiation between the christian vassal states and the turkish provinces

Development of the European part of the Ottoman Empire

Growth of the Ottoman Empire, without differentiation between the christian vassal states and the turkish provinces

Principality of Moldavia

Principality of Moldavia during Stephen the Great (1457 - 1504)

Romanian principalities 1600

Romanian principalities and Ottoman eyalets in 1683

Habsburg Empire during the 18th century

Romanian principalities 1793-1812

Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801

Bukovina as a part of Galicia, the autonomous Transylvania and the Turkish/Russian Moldovas

The Balkans after 1856

Romanian principalities 1856-1859

Romania (1868) in the context of "modern Dacia"

Romania 1859-1878

Romania 1878, compared to interwar Romania

Romania in 1879 (German)

The Northwestern Black Sea basin in 1886

Romania in 1886 (French/Romanian)

Romania in 1891

Romania in 1897 (Hungarian)

Romania in 1898 (French)

Romania in 1903 (Polish)
(together with Serbia and Bulgaria)

Romania in 1901 (German)

Romania in 1905 (German)

Citizens of Romania (1899)

Soil map and climate map of Romania before the First World War

Romanian-populated regions in Austria-Hungary at the beginning of the 20th century

Historical map of Austria-Hungary from the Bibliothek allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens für Militäranwärter Band I, 1905

Austria-Hungary and Romania before 1913 (Norvegian)

Austria-Hungary and Romania before 1913, ethnic map (Romanian)

Romania 1913-1916/18

Romanian Campaign (World War I)

Central Powers' offensive in Romania, 1916

WWI in Romania, 1916 (spanish)

WWII in Romania, 1944 (spanish)

The Allied offensive on Southern Central Europe

Railway map of the region of Moldova in 1917.

Romanian borders according to the Bucharest Peace Treaty (May 1918) and than to WWI Peace Treaties (1919-1920)

Territorial development in the twentieth century

Romania in 1924

Wallachian counties during XIV^th - XVI^th centuries

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Counties, 1480

Counties of Wallachia between 1601 and 1718

Counties of Moldavia between 1601 and 1718

Counties of Wallachia and Moldavia in 1800, according with N. Iorga and C. Giurescu

Counties of Romania between 1856 and 1878

Counties of Romania between 1878 and 1913

Counties of Romania between 1919 and 1925

The original proposal for the administrative unification of interwar Romania (Simion Mehedinţi Commission, 1920)

Counties and regions of Romania before 1926

Romania 1918—1940, Administrative map (after 1926)

The 70 counties of Romania between 1936 and 1939

Interwar Romania (administrative map)

Physical map of Romania 1926-1929

Romania in 1930. Administrative map including the counties, the towns and the county subdivisions (plăşi)

Romania in 1938. Administrative map including the counties, the towns and the county subdivisions (plăşi)

Romania 1939, Administrative map

Former Alba county
Former Arad county
Former Argeş county
Former Bacău county
Former Baia county
Former Bălţi county
Former Bihor county
Former Botoşani county
Former Brăila county
Former Braşov county
Former Buzău county
Former Cahul county
Former Caliacra county
Former Caraş county (after 1926)
Former Caraş-Severin county (until 1926)
Former Câmpulung county
Former Cernăuţi county
Former Cetatea Albă county
Former Ciuc county
Former Cluj county
Former Constanţa county
Former Covurlui county
Former Dâmboviţa county
Former Dolj county
Former Dorohoi county
Former Durostor county
Former Făgăraş county
Former Fălciu county
Former Gorj county
Former Hotin county
Former Hunedoara county
Former Ialomiţa county
Former Iaşi county
Former Ilfov county
Former Ismail county
Former Lăpuşna county
Former Maramureş county
Former Mehedinţi county
Former Mureş county
Former Muscel county
Former Năsăud county
Former Neamţ county
Former Odorhei county
Former Olt county
Former Orhei county
Former Prahova county
Former Putna county
Former Rădăuţi county
Former Râmnicu Sărat county
Former Roman county
Former Romanaţi county
Former Sălaj county
Former Satu Mare county
Former Severin county (after 1926)
Former Sibiu county
Former Someş county
Former Soroca county
Former Storojineţ county
Former Suceava county
Former Târnava Mare county
Former Târnava Mică county
Former Tecuci county
Former Teleorman county
Former Tighina county
Former Timiş-Torontal county
Former Trei Scaune county
Former Tulcea county
Former Turda county
Former Tutova county
Former Vâlcea county
Former Vaslui county
Former Vlaşca county

Former Tinutul Arges
Former Tinutul Crisuri
Former Tinutul Dunarii
Former Tinutul Jiu
Former Tinutul Marii
Former Tinutul Mures
Former Tinutul Nistru
Former Tinutul Prut
Former Tinutul Suceava
Former Tinutul Timis

Jewish communities in 1930

Romania in September 1940, administrative map

Romania 1940-1941

Romania 1941

Administrative map of the Governorate of Bessarabia (in existence between 1941 and 1944).

Romania controlled (August 19, 1941 - January 29, 1944) the whole "Transnistrian" region between Dniester, Bug rivers and Black Sea coast. The region was divided into 13 judeţe (counties).

Transylvania as part of Hungary

Romania 1942

Administrative map of Romania in 1942

Administrative map of Romania, 1950-1952

Administrative map of Romania, 1952-1956

Administrative map of Romania, 1960-1968

Romania in 1967

Proposed administrative reorganisation of the teritory of Romania, 1968

Romania 2000

Romania after WW II

Romania 1947

Danube Delta 1940 - 1948

Romania's Anticommunist Resistance 1948-1960

A hypotetical map of Romania united with Moldova, as it is demanded by the unionist movement

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The so-called "Belkovski proposal": a political union excluding Transnistria

Historical maps on Transylvania

Magyars in Transylvania

Traditional ethnographic romanian lands of Transylvania & Partium.

Duchies of Gelu, Glad and Menumorut according to the Gesta Hungarorum (9th century)

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East-Hungarian kingdom & Principality of Transylvania in the XII century.

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East-Hungarian kingdom & Principality of Transylvania in the XIII century.

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East-Hungarian kingdom & Principality of Transylvania in the XV - XVII centuries.

Transylvania in the 13th century

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East-Hungarian kingdom & Principality of Transylvania in the XVI century

Emigration of the Szeklers

Banate of Severin, 13th century

Transylvania in the 13th century

Transylvania in the 16th century

Transylvania in 1570

Kingdom of Hungary in 1550

The seats of the Transylvanian Saxons

Comitates, Szeklerland and Saxonland in Transylvania

The Transylvanian Principality in 1857

The Transylvanian Principality in 1862

Administrative division of Transylvania, 1300-1867

Sibiu County (South-Central Transylvania) in 1937

Northern Transylvania annexed to Hungary in World War II

Magyar Autonomous Region in 1952

Magyar and Mureş-Magyar Autonomous Regions (1952-1968)

Ethnic Hungarians in Romania

Szekely Land

Dobruja (Dobrogea)

Scythia Minor

Principality of Dobrotici cca 1370

Principality of Dobrotici cca 1385

Historical borders in Dobruja

Map of Romania and Bulgaria with Dobruja highlighted

The fronteer between Northern and Southern Dobruja

Counties of Dobruja (1878-1879)

The fronteer between Romania and Bulgaria (1913-1940)

The counties of Northern Dobruja

Banat

detailed map of the south-eastern part of Pannonian Sea (including area of modern Banat) during the Miocene Epoch

Indo-European peoples in Banat in ancient times

Roman province of Dacia and Roman cities in Banat (2nd century)

Lands ruled by Buta-ul, 8th century

Voivodship of Glad, 9th century

Voivodship of Ahtum, 11th century

Eyalet of Temeşvar, and Banate of Lugos and Karansebes in 1568

Eyalet of Temeşvar in 1572

Elayet of Temeşvar in the middle of the 17th century

Eyalet of Temeşvar in 1699

Banat of Temeswar in 1718

Banat of Temeswar in 1739

Banat of Temeswar in 1745

Banat of Temeswar in 1751-1778

Vlach (Romanian) Banatian regiment in the end of the 18th century

Counties in Bačka, Banat and Srem in 1881

Division of Banat between Vojvodina and Transylvania (proposed by Aurel Popovici in 1906)

Banat Republic in 1918

Republic of Banatia (proposed by Banatian Germans at a Paris Peace Conference in 1920)

The dividing of Banat (1919-1923)

Moldavia

The principality of Moldavia in 1483, during the reign of Stephen the Great (1457-1504)

The regions of the historical principality of Moldavia, with the distribution of these regions to modern states

Ethnic map of Hotin County (northern Bessarabia) in 1844

Ethnic map of Hotin County (northern Bessarabia) in 1930

Bukovina

Ethnic map of Bukovina in 1930

The division of Bukovina after the Soviet occupation of the northern half of the province in 1940

Administrative map of the Governorate of Bukovina in May 1942.

Southern Bukovina within the modern Suceava County

Old Maps

Transylvania in 1532, by Johannes Honter

Romania in 1543, by Johannes Honter

Johann Sambucus, Map of Transsylvania

Map of Moldova, 16th century

Moldova by Dimitrie Cantemir, 1716

Walachia and Romania

Balkans, by T. Jefferys, 1785

The oldest known hypotetical map of Rumania (1816)

A hypotetical map of Rumania from 1855

The southwestern Bessarabian frontier between 1856 and 1978

The 54 files of the Charta Principateloru Unite ale României (Bucharest, 1860, by George Filipescu-Dubau & Anton Parteni-Antoninu)
"Charta Principateloru Unite ale României" -file 1
idem -file 2- Oaş (Ugocea)
idem -file 3- Maramureş
idem -file 4- Bihor/Sălaj
idem -file 5- Șimleu/Zalău
idem -file 6- Dej/Bistriţa
idem -file 7- North-Western Bucovina
idem -file 8- North-Eastern Bucovina
idem -file 9- Northern Bessarabia
idem -file 10- South-Western Bucovina
idem -file 11- South-Eastern Bucovina
idem -file 12- Iaşi and around
idem -file 13- Soroca and around
idem -file 14- Statistics and Legend
idem -file 15- Legend
idem -file 16- Bălţi/Orhei
idem -file 17- Chişinău/Dubăsari and Statistics
idem -file 18- Statistics
idem -file 19- Eastern Bihor
idem -file 20- Cluj/Moţs county/Alba-Iulia
idem -file 21- Country of the Târnave rivers
idem -file 22- Caransebeş/Mehadia
idem -file 23- Hunedoara/Haţeg country/Târgu-Jiu
idem -file 24- Sibiu/Râmnicu-Vâlcea
idem -file 25- Western Székely county
idem -file 26- Eastern Székely & Csángó counties/Piatra-Neamţ
idem -file 27- Roman/Vaslui/Bârlad
idem -file 28- Braşov/Câmpulung/Câmpina
idem -file 29- Covasna/Vrancea/Buzău
idem -file 30- Tecuci/Focşani/Râmnicu-Sărat
idem -file 31- Hânceşti/Huşi/Leova/Comrat
idem -file 32- Chişinău/Tighina-Bender/Căuşeni
idem -file 33- Mouths of the Dniestr
idem -file 34- Galaţi/Reni/Bolgrad
idem -file 35- Izmail/Chilia/Chilia & Sulina branchs
idem -file 36- Tuzla in Budzak/Snakes Is.
idem -file 37- Orşova/Turnu-Severin/Vidin/Iron Gates
idem -file 38- Central Oltenia/Craiova
idem -file 39- Piteşti/Slatina/Caracal
idem -file 40- North-Western Bulgaria in the Ottoman Empire
idem -file 41- North-Western Bulgaria/Danube
idem -file 42- Islaz/Turnu-Măgurele/Danube/Northern Bulgaria
idem -file 43- Central Muntenia/Târgovişte/Vlaşca county
idem -file 44- Bucharest/Ploieşti/Olteniţa
idem -file 45- Slobozia/Călăraşi/Bărăgan
idem -file 46- Alexandria/Zimnicea/Giurgiu
idem -file 47- Northern Bulgaria between Ruse/Tutrakan/Razgrad
idem -file 48- North-Eastern Bulgaria around Silistra
idem -file 49- Central Dobrudja
idem -file 50- North-Eastern Dobrudja/St-George branch and Statistics
idem -file 51- Statistics
idem -file 52- Southern Dobrudja around Mangalia
idem -file 53- Statistics
idem -file 54- Statistics

Ethno-linguistic maps

The spread of ethnic Romanians

The 3 main subdivisions of the Daco-Romanians

Romanian varieties

Some representative isoglosses of three main varieties (dialects) of Daco-Romanian

Vlachs in the Balkans

Romanians in Romania (2002)

Romanians in Romania (2011) by counties

Romanians in Transylvania (1850)

Hungarians in Romania, by communes and cities (2002)

Hungarians in Transylvania (1850)

Declared Hungarians in Transylvania (1850)

Declared Szekelys in Transylvania (1850)

Hungarians in Romania, by counties (2002)

Hungarians in Romania, by counties (2011)

Hungarians in Transylvania, Banat, Crişana, Maramureş (2002)

Roma (Gypsies) in Romania (2002)

Roma (Gypsies) in Romania (2011) by counties

Gypsies in Transylvania (1850)

Germans in Romania (2002)

Germans in Transylvania (1850)

Declared Germans in Transylvania (1850)

Declared Saxons in Transylvania (1850)

Ukrainians in Romania (2002)

Russians and Lipovans in Romania (2002)

Turks in Romania (census 2002)

Tatars in Romania (census 2002)

Serbs in Romania (census 2002)

Slovaks in Romania (census 2002)

Bulgarians in Romania (census 2002)

Croats in Romania (census 2002)

Greeks in Romania (census 2002)

Jews in Romania (census 2002)

Jews in Transylvania (1850)

Czechs in Romania (census 2002)

Poles in Romania (census 2002)

Italians in Romania (census 2002)

Armenians in Romania (census 2002)

Armenians in Transylvania (1850)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Romania (census 2002)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Romania (census 1930)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Transylvania (1850)

Roman Catholicism in Romania (census 2002)

Roman Catholicism in Romania (census 1930)

Roman Catholicism in Transylvania (1850)

Protestantism in Romania (census 2002)

Protestantism in Romania (census 1930)

Protestantism in Transylvania (1850)

Reformed (Calvins) in Romania (census 2002)

Reformed (Calvins) in Romania (census 1930)

Reformed (Calvins) in Transylvania (1850)

Pentecostals in Romania (census 2002)

Greek Catholics in Romania (census 2002)

Greek Catholics in Romania (census 1930)

Greek Catholics in Transylvania (1850)

Baptists in Romania (census 2002)

Baptists in Romania (census 1930)

Adventists in Romania (census 2002)

Adventists in Romania (census 1930)

Muslims in Romania (census 2002)

Unitarians in Romania (census 2002)

Unitarians in Romania (census 1930)

Unitarians in Transylvania (1850)

The United Brethrens in Romania (census 2002)

The Old believers in Romania (census 2002)

The distribution of the Lutherans (on the north of the Carpathians) and other Evangelical churches (on the south of the Carpathians) in Romania (census 2002)

Lutherans in Romania (census 1930)

Lutherans in Transylvania (1850)

Ethnic groups in Transylvania (1850)

Ethnic groups in Transylvania (1850) with Saxons and Szeklers

Ethnic map of the European Turkey and its vassal states (1861)

Ethnic map of the Balkan Peninsula (1898)

Vlachs (Romanians) in Hungary, census 1890

Ethnic map of Austria-Hungary, census 1880. German version

Ethnic map of Austria-Hungary, census 1890. English version

Territories inhabited by Romanians in 1908

Territories inhabited by Romanians before the First World War

Religions of Austria-Hungary, including Transsylvania

Linguistic map of Transylvania, Banat, Crisana, Satmar and Maramures in 1910

Historical ethnic map of Transylvania

Transylvanian Saxon settlements (1890)

The Lutheran church in Transylvania (1904)

German-inhabited settlements in Southern Transylvania and the Romanian Banat in 1940

South Slavs in Romania

Ethnic map (1861). See also the legend

Ethnic map (1903)

Ethnic map (1918)

Dobruja Germans

Ethnic map of Romania according to the 1930 census

Ethnic map of Bessarabia according to the 1930 census

Ethnic map of Romania (including Transnistria) in 1941

Ethnic composition of the (Romanian) Governorate of Bessarabia in 1941

Ethnic map of Romania (census 1977)

Ethnic map of Romania (census 1992)

Ethnic map of Romania (census 2002)

Ethnic map of Romania (census 2011) by communes and cities

Ethnic map of Romania (census 2011) by counties

Religious map of Romania (census 2002)

Religious map of Romania (census 1930)

Religions in Transylvania (1850)

Foreign residents in Romania (census 2002) by country of citizenship

Visa requirements for Romanian citizens

Satellite maps

Satellite image of Romania in December 2001

Regional topographic maps

Topographic map of Dobruja
Protected areas of Dobruja
Topographic map of the area surrounding the city of Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Southern Transylvania (scale 1:100.000)
Topographic map of the area surrounding the town of Targu Neamt, Moldavia (scale 1:75.000)

Economy maps

Agriculture production (1898)
Oilfields in Romania (1900)
Romania - Basic Resources and Processing (1970)
Industrial centers (1970)
Romanian economy (1990)
Romania - Land Utilization (1970)
Romania - Land Use (1990)
Income in Romania
Contributions to the Romanian budget
The waterway that connects the North Sea with the Black Sea
Illiteracy in Romania 2011
Literacy in Romania 1930
Crime map (2009)
Homicides in Romania
Suicides in Romania
Car accidents in Romania
Romanian Order of Architects

Election maps

Results of the 1937 general elections at county level
Results of the 2008 local elections at county and municipality level
Results of the 2008 legislative elections in the Senate constituencies within Romania
Results of the 2008 legislative elections in the Chamber of Deputies constituencies within Romania

Notes and references

General remarks:

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