1The development regions ofRomania have no administrative role and were formed in order to manage funds from theEuropean Union. 2As of 2007, the Prefect is not a politician, but a public functionary who is not allowed to be a member of a political party, and is banned from engaging in any political activity in the first six months after the resignation (or exclusion) 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
This county has a total area of 6,621 km2 (2,556 sq mi).
In the western part of the county there are mountains from theEastern Carpathian group. Here, along the valleys of theOituz River andTrotuș River, there are two important links betweenMoldavia andTransylvania. On the East side, the heights decrease and the lowest point can be found on theSiret River valley which crosses the county from North to South down the middle. On the East side there is theMoldavian Plateau crossed by many small rivers.
Bears, wolves, foxes, wild boars, and squirrels inhabit Bacău County's mountains, particularly in its ruralSlănic-Moldova region; the remnants of the local deer are preserved inMănăstirea Cașin.[2]
The county of Bacău was one of the most industrialized regions in thecommunist period and it remained Moldavia's most important industrial center ever since. There are two largeoil refineries atOnești andDărmănești. Following thecollapse of the communist regime, Bacău continued to be the region's most important GDP supplier, but the county became more famous for the controversial figures involved in the local economy than for its performance.
Between the world wars, Bacău County had a different territorial extent. The county was located in the east central part ofGreater Romania, in the center ofMoldavia. Its territory included the central part of the current Bacău County. It bordered on the west with the counties ofTrei Scaune andCiuc, in the north withNeamț andRoman counties, in the east with the counties ofTutova andTecuci, and in the south withPutna County.
According to the 1930 census data, the county population was 260,781, comprising 88.6% Romanians, 5.3% Jews, 3.3% Hungarians, as well as other minorities.[9] From the religious point of view, 75.8% were Eastern Orthodox, 18.1% Roman Catholics, 5.5% Jewish, as well as other minorities.[10]
In 1930, the county's urban population was 50,342, of which 70.1% were Romanians, 23.9% were Jews, 2.2% were Hungarians, as well as other minorities. From a religious point of view, the urban population consisted of 64.9% Eastern Orthodox, 24.4% Jewish, 9.3% Roman Catholic, as well as other minorities.
^1987 estimate published in: Tennant, Chris (transl.) (1994)The Hungarian minority’s situation in Ceaușescu's Romania. Boulder: Social Science Monographs. p. 33.
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