Development regions of Romania
The development regions of Romania refer to the eight regional divisions created in Romania in 1998 in order to better co-ordinate regional development as Romania progressed towards accession to the European Union. The development regions correspond to NUTS II-level divisions in European Union member states. Despite becoming increasingly significant in regional development projects, Romania's development regions do not actually have an administrative status and do not have a legislative or executive council or government. Rather, they serve a function for allocating European Union PHARE funds for regional development, as well as for collection of regional statistics. They also co-ordinate a range of regional development projects and became members of the Committee of the Regions when Romania joined the EU on January 1, 2007.List
There are 8 development regions in Romania, which are named by their geographical position in the country:
- RO1 – Macroregiunea 1:
- *Nord-Vest – RO11; 6 counties; 2,600,132 inhabitants;
- *Centru – RO12; 6 counties; 2,360,805 inhabitants;
- RO2 – Macroregiunea 2:
- *Nord-Est – RO21; 6 counties; 3,302,217 inhabitants;
- *Sud-Est – RO22; 6 counties; 2,545,923 inhabitants;
- RO3 – Macroregiunea 3:
- *Sud - Muntenia – RO31; 7 counties; 3,136,446 inhabitants;
- *București - Ilfov – RO32; 1 county and Bucharest; 2,272,163 inhabitants;
- RO4 – Macroregiunea 4:
- *Sud-Vest Oltenia – RO41; 5 counties; 2,075,642 inhabitants;
- *Vest – RO42; 4 counties; 1,828,313 inhabitants;
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