Bihor County

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Administrative map of Romania
with Bihor county highlighted

Bihor is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Transylvania region, with the capital city at Oradea (population: 206,527). Its common abbreviation is BH.

Demographics

In 2002, Bihor had a population of 600,223 and the population density was 79.56/km². There were 291,613 males and 308,610 females. The county was inhabited by 969 foreign citizens (0.0016% of the population) in 2002.

Ethnicity

The following ethnicities make up the population of Bihor, as of the 2002 census:

Romanians: 404,537 (67.40%)
Hungarians: 155,554 (25.91%)
Roma: 30,237 (5.00%)
Slovaks: 7,361 (1.22%)
Germans: 1,137 (0.19%)
Jews: 242
Ukrainians: 174
Greeks: 71
Russians: 63
Bulgarians: 31
Serbs: 31
Polish: 21
Turks: 15
Czechs: 14
Armenians: 11
Croatians: 3

Religion

The following religions make up the population of Bihor, as of the 2002 census:

Romanian Orthodox: 357,996 (59.6%)
Reformed: 107,817 (18.0%)
Roman Catholic: 55,555 (9.3%)
Pentecostal: 34,460 (5.7%)
Baptist: 22,366 (3.7%)
Greek Catholic: 14,086 (2.3%)
Seventh Day Adventist: 1,858 (0.3%)
Atheist: 1,155 (0.2%)
Jewish: 210
Islam: 175
Total Protestant: 166,501 (27.7%)

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Demographics

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Geography

List of cities in Bihor county

Communes in Bihor county