Harghita County

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Harghita County Județul Harghita Hargita megye
County
Landscape around Lake Sfânta Ana, southern Harghita County
Coat of arms
Harghita county, territorial location
Country	Romania
Development region1	Centru
Historic region	Transylvania
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Miercurea Ciuc
Government
• Type	County Council
• President of the County Council	Csaba Borboly [ro] (RMDSZ)
• Prefect2	Sándor Petres [ro]
Area
• Total	6,639 km2 (2,563 sq mi)
• Rank	13th in Romania
Population  (2021-12-01)[1]
• Total	291,950
• Rank	33rd in Romania
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	53wxyz3
Area code	+40 x664
Car Plates	HR5
GDP	US$1.840 billion (2015)
GDP per capita	US$6,033 (2015)
Website	County Council County Prefecture
1The developing regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed just to attract funds from the European Union 2 as of 2007, the Prefect is not a politician, but a public functionary. The Prefect 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 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

Harghita County (Romanian: Județul Harghita, Romanian pronunciation: [harˈɡita] ^ⓘ and Hungarian: Hargita megye, pronounced [ˈhɒrɡitɒ]) is a county (județ) in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc.