Dolj County

Dolj County Județul Dolj
County
Jiu River
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 44°10′N 23°42′E / 44.17°N 23.7°E / 44.17; 23.7
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud-Vest
Historic region	Oltenia
Capital city	Craiova
Government
• Type	County Council
• President of the County Council	Vasile Dorin-Cosmin [ro]
• Prefect2	Dan Diaconu [ro]
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.