Gorj County
Județul Gorj | |
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County | |
 Constantin Brâncuși's Endless Column in Târgu Jiu | |
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| Coordinates: 45°02′N 23°18′E / 45.04°N 23.3°E | |
| Country |  Romania |
| Development region1 | Sud-Vest |
| Historic region | Oltenia |
| Capital city (Reședință de județ) | Târgu Jiu |
| Government | |
| • Type | County Council |
| • Council President | Cosmin-Mihai Popescu (PSD) |
| • Prefect2 | Virgil Drăgușin |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,602 km2 (2,163 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 21st in Romania |
| Population (2021-12-01)[1] | |
• Total | 314,685 |
| • Rank | 28th in Romania |
| • Density | 56/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 21wxyz3 |
| Area code | +40 x534 |
| Car Plates | GJ5 |
| GDP | US$2.824 billion (2015) |
| GDP per capita | US$8,450 (2015) |
| Website | County 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 | |
Gorj County (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡorʒ] ) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Oltenia, with its capital city at Târgu Jiu. Gorj comes from the Slavic Gor(no)-Jiu (“upper Jiu”), in contrast with Dolj (“lower Jiu”).