Counties of Romania

As of 2003, Romania is divided into 41 counties and one municipality, as follows:

Name	Common Abbrev	Capital
Alba	AB	Alba Iulia[?]
Arad	AR	Arad
Argeş	AG	Piteşti[?]
Bacău	BC	Bacău
Bihor[?]	BH	Oradea[?]
Bistriţa-Năsăud[?]	BN	Bistriţa[?]
Botoşani[?]	BT	Botoşani[?]
Braşov	BV	Braşov
Brăila[?]	BR	Brăila[?]
Buzău[?]	BZ	Buzău[?]
Caraş-Severin	CS	Reşiţa
Călăraşi[?]	CL	Călăraşi[?]
Cluj[?]	CJ	Cluj-Napoca
Constanţa[?]	CT	Constanţa[?]
Covasna[?]	CV	Sfântu Gheorghe[?]
Dâmboviţa[?]	DB	Târgovişte[?]
Dolj[?]	DJ	Craiova[?]
Galaţi	GL	Galaţi
Gorj[?]	GJ	Târgu Jiu[?]
Giurgiu[?]	GR	Giurgiu[?]
Harghita[?]	HR	Miercurea Ciuc[?]
Hunedoara	HD	Deva
Ialomiţa[?]	IL	Slobozia[?]
Iaşi	IS	Iaşi
Ilfov[?]	B	Bucureşti
Maramureş[?]	MM	Baia Mare[?]
Mehedinţi[?]	MH	Drobeta-Turnu Severin[?]
Mureş[?]	MS	Târgu Mureş[?]
Neamţ	NT	Piatra Neamţ[?]
Olt[?]	OT	Slatina[?]
Prahova[?]	PH	Ploieşti[?]
Satu Mare[?]	SM	Satu Mare[?]
Sălaj[?]	SJ	Zalău[?]
Sibiu[?]	SB	Sibiu[?]
Suceava[?]	SV	Suceava[?]
Teleorman[?]	TR	Alexandria
Timiş[?]	TM	Timişoara
Tulcea[?]	TL	Tulcea[?]
Vaslui[?]	VS	Vaslui[?]
Vâlcea[?]	VL	Râmnicu Vâlcea[?]
Vrancea[?]	VN	Focşani[?]

A new administrative division was proposed, but it is not expected to be implemented before 2005.

History

Today's administrative division of Romania was created in 1968. In 1981 the former counties of Ilfov and Ialomiţa were re-organised into the present-day counties of Giurgiu, Călăraşi, Ialomiţa and Ilfov. Until 1995 Ilfov was not a proper county, instead it was dependant of Bucharest.