Cluj County
Cluj (Romanian pronunciation: [kluʒ]); is a county (județ) of Romania, in Transylvania, with the capital city at Cluj-Napoca.
Name
In Hungarian, it is known as Kolozs megye, and in German as Kreis Klausenburg. During Austro-Hungarian administration, before 1918, there was a county with similar name (see: Kolozs County).
Demography
At the 2011 census, Cluj County had a population of 691,106 inhabitants, down from the 2002 census. At 1 January 2015, an analysis of the National Institute of Statistics revealed that 13.7% of the county population was between 0 and 14 years, 69.8% between 15 and 64 years, and 16.4% 65 years and over. 66.3% of the population lives in urban areas, having the fourth highest rate of urbanization in the country, after Hunedoara (75%), Brașov (72,3%) and Constanța (68,8%).
Ethnic composition
At the 2011 census, the ethnic composition was as follows:
Romanians – 80.09% (520,885 people)
Hungarians – 15.93% (103,591 people). Hold the majority of the population in Sic (93.77%), Izvoru Crișului (79.04%), Sâncraiu (78.44%), Unguraș (61.46%), Moldovenești (55.14%), Săvădisla (51.63%).
