Dolj County

Dolj County
Județul Dolj
County
Coat of arms of Dolj County
Coordinates: 44°10′N 23°42′E / 44.17°N 23.7°E / 44.17; 23.7
Country Romania
Development region1Sud-Vest
Historic regionOltenia
Capital cityCraiova
Government
 • TypeCounty Council
 • President of the County CouncilVasile Dorin-Cosmin [ro]
 • Prefect2Dan Diaconu [ro]
Area
 • Total7,414 km2 (2,863 sq mi)
 • Rank7th in Romania
Population
 (2021-12-01)[1]
 • Total599,442
 • Rank7th in Romania
 • Density81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code
20wxyz3
Area code+40 x514
ISO 3166 codeRO-DJ
Car PlatesDJ5
GDP nominalUS$9.400 billion (2024)
GDP per capitaUS$6,512 (2015)
WebsiteCounty Council
County Prefecture
1 The development regions of Romania have no administrative role and were formed in order to manage 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 his resignation (or exclusion) from the public functionaries' 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

Dolj County (Romanian pronunciation: [dolʒ] ; originally meant Dol(no)-Jiu, "lower Jiu", as opposed to Gorj (upper Jiu))[citation needed] is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova.

  1. ^ "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.