Gorj County

Gorj County Județul Gorj
County
Constantin Brâncuși's Endless Column in Târgu Jiu
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 45°02′N 23°18′E / 45.04°N 23.3°E / 45.04; 23.3
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud-Vest
Historic region	Oltenia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Târgu Jiu
Government
• Type	County Council
• Council President	Cosmin-Mihai Popescu [ro] (PSD)
• Prefect2	Virgil Drăgușin [ro]
Area
• Total	5,602 km2 (2,163 sq mi)
• Rank	21st in Romania
Population  (2021-12-01)[1]
• Total	314,685
• Rank	28th in Romania
• Density	56/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	21wxyz3
Area code	+40 x534
Car Plates	GJ5
GDP	US$2.824 billion (2015)
GDP per capita	US$8,450 (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

Gorj County (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡorʒ] ^ⓘ) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Oltenia, with its capital city at Târgu Jiu. Gorj comes from the Slavic Gor(no)-Jiu (“upper Jiu”), in contrast with Dolj (“lower Jiu”).