Tulcea County

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Tulcea
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Facts
Region:	Dobrogea
Capital city:	Tulcea
Indicative:	TL
Population:	265,349 as of 2002
Population density:	31 inh/km²
Area:	8,499 km²
Web	County council County's prefecure
Telephone code	+40 x40

Tulcea is a county (judeţ) in the East of Romania, the North side of the Dobrogea region, with the capital city at Tulcea (population: 96,813).

1 Neighbours
2 Demographics
3 Geography
4 Economy
5 Tourism
6 Administrative divisions

Neighbours

Black Sea in the East.
Brăila County in the West.
Galaţi County in the North-West
Ukraine in the North - the Odessa Oblast.
Constanţa County in the South.

Demographics

In 2000, it had a population of 265,349 and the population density was 31/km².

90% of the populations are Romanians. In the Danube Delta there is an important community of Russians and Lipovans (about 7% of the entire county's population). In the south of the county there still are Turks and Tartars - about 2% of the county's population. There are also Rromas (Gypsies) - about 1% declared.

Geography

This county has a total area of 8,499 km².

The most spectacular part of the Tulcea County is the Danube Delta. it occupies about 1/3 of the entire surface and is in the North-East side of the county. It has three main branches - the Sulina branch (the only one navigable by large ships) in the middle, the Chilia branch in the North (the border with Ukraine) and the Sfântu Gheorghe (Saint George) branch in the South.

In the South-East of the county there are the lagoon - lakes Razelm-Sinoe. In the Danube Delta and in the South, in the area between the Sfântu Gheorghe Channel and the Razelm Lake there are countless channels and small lakes the entire area being included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites and Biosphere reserves.

The Danube flows around the county in the West and North side. In the West there is the Măcin Branch which flows on the East side of the Great Brăila Island. From Smârdan (on the opposite side from Brăila) until Pătlăgeanca (close to Tulcea) the Danube has only one big flow of water, around which there are an imense number of lakes and small channels.

On the center of the county there is the Casincea Plateau and the Măcin Mountains - the remains of an prehistorical mountains range (having more than 400 million years) with the greatest height at about 400 m.