Târgu Mureș

Târgu Mureș
Marosvásárhely (Hungarian)
County seat and Municipality
City Center
Palace of Culture
The Synagogue
Bolyai Farkas High-School
Fortress Reformed church
Announciation Cathedral
Prefecture tower
Târgu Mureș
Location in Romania
Coordinates: 46°32′44″N 24°33′45″E / 46.54556°N 24.56250°E / 46.54556; 24.56250
Country Romania
CountyMureș
StatusCounty capital
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2024)Zoltán Soós[1] (Ind.)
Area
 • County seat and Municipality
49.3 km2 (19.0 sq mi)
Population
 (2021-12-01)[2]
 • County seat and Municipality
116,033
 • Density2,593/km2 (6,720/sq mi)
 • Metro
212,752
Demonym(s)târgumureșeantârgumureșeancă (ro)
vásárhelyi (hu)
Ethnicity
 • Romanians51.9%
 • Hungarians45.2%
 • Roma2.5%
Postal Code
540xyz1
Area code+40 x652
Car PlatesMS-N3
Websitewww.tirgumures.ro
1x, y, and z are digits that indicate the street, part of the street, or even the building of the address
2x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks
3used just on the plates of vehicles that operate only within the city limits (such as trolleybuses, trams, utility vehicles, ATVs, etc.)

Târgu Mureș[a] (/ˌtɜːrɡ ˈmʊərɛʃ, ˌtɪər-/, Romanian: [ˈtɨrɡu ˈmureʃ] ; Hungarian: Marosvásárhely [ˈmɒroʃvaːʃaːrhɛj] ; German: Neumarkt am Mieresch) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th-largest city in Romania, with 116,033 inhabitants as of the 2021 census. It lies on the Mureș River, the second-longest river in Romania (after the Danube).

  1. ^ "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
  3. ^ "Romanian census 2002". Edrc.ro. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2011.


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