Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca normally called Cluj, is the fourth maximum populous town in Romania, and the seat of Cluj County inside the northwestern a part of the us of a. Geographically, it's miles kind of equidistant from Bucharest 324 kilometres , Budapest 351 km and Belgrade. Located within the Someșul Mic river valley, the city is considered the unofficial capital to the ancient province of Transylvania. From 1790 to 1848 and from 1861 to 1867, it changed into the legit capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania. As of 2011, 324,576 inhabitants lived within the town limits making it the united states's 2d maximum populous on the time, after the countrywide capital Bucharest, marking a moderate growth from the determine recorded on the 2002 census.

The Cluj-Napoca metropolitan region has a populace of 411,379 humans, while the populace of the peri-urban region Romanian: zona periurbană exceeds 420,000 citizens. The new metropolitan government of Cluj-Napoca became operational in December 2008.