Orhei County

Județul Orhei

County (Județ)

Coat of arms

Country

Historic region

Capital city (Reședință de județ)

Established

1925

Ceased to exist

Administrative and Constitutional Reform in 1938

Area

• Total

4,246 km² (1,639 sq mi)

Population (1930)

• Total

277,009

• Summer (DST)

Orhei was a county (Romanian: județ) in the Kingdom of Romania between 1925 and 1938 and a county of Moldova from 1998 to 2003, with the seat at Orhei.

Its population in 2003 was 300,400.

Interwar county

The county neighboured the Soviet Union to the east, the counties of Soroca to the north-west, Bălți to the west and Lăpușna to the south.

The county consisted of six districts (plăși):

After the 1938 Administrative and Constitutional Reform, this county merged with the counties of Lăpușna, Cetatea Albă and Tighina to form Ținutul Nistru.

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Former counties (județe) of Moldova

Bălți Cahul Chișinău Edineț Lăpușna Orhei Soroca Taraclia Tighina Ungheni

Historical counties of Romania

Alba Arad Argeș Bacău Baia Bălți Bihor Botoșani Brașov Brăila Buzău Cahul Caliacra Câmpulung Caraș Cernăuți Cetatea Albă Ciuc Cluj Constanța Covurlui Dâmbovița Dolj Dorohoi Durostor Făgăraș Fălciu Gorj Hotin Hunedoara Ialomița Iași Ilfov Ismail Lăpușna Maramureș Mehedinți Mureș Muscel Năsăud Neamț Odorhei Olt Orhei Prahova Putna Rădăuți Râmnicu Sărat Roman Romanați Satu Mare Sălaj Severin Sibiu Someș Soroca Storojineț Suceava Târnava-Mare Târnava-Mică Tecuci Teleorman Tighina Timiș-Torontal Trei Scaune Tulcea Turda Tutova Vaslui Vâlcea Vlașca

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