Dolj County
Județul Dolj | |
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County | |
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Coordinates: 44°10′N 23°42′E / 44.17°N 23.7°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Development region1 | Sud-Vest |
Historic region | Oltenia |
Capital city | Craiova |
Government | |
• Type | County Council |
• President of the County Council | Vasile Dorin-Cosmin |
• Prefect2 | Dan Diaconu |
Area | |
• Total | 7,414 km2 (2,863 sq mi) |
• Rank | 7th in Romania |
Population (2021-12-01)[1] | |
• Total | 599,442 |
• Rank | 7th in Romania |
• Density | 81/km2 (210/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal Code | 20wxyz3 |
Area code | +40 x514 |
ISO 3166 code | RO-DJ |
Car Plates | DJ5 |
GDP nominal | US$9.400 billion (2024) |
GDP per capita | US$6,512 (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 |
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.