Călărași County

Județul Călărași
Județul Călărași
County
	Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud
Historic region	Muntenia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Călărași
Created	1981
Government
• Type	County Board
• President of the County Board	Vasile Iliuță (National Liberal Party)
• Prefect2	George Iacob
Area
• Total	5,088 km2 (1,964 sq mi)
• Rank	28th in Romania
Population (2011)
• Total	285,050
• Rank	34th in Romania
• Density	56.02/km2 (145.1/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	91wxyz3
Car Plates	CL5
GDP	US$ 1.635 billion (2015)
GDP/capita	US$ 5,736 (2015)
Website	County Board; County Prefecture
	1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed as a way of managing funds from the European Union; 2 as of 2007, the Prefect is not a politician, but a public functionary. He (or she) is not allowed to be a member of a political party, and is banned from having any political activity in the first six months after resigning (or being excluded) from the public functionary corps; 3w, x, y, and z are digits that indicate the city, the street, part of the street, or even the building of the address; 4x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks; 5used on both the plates of the vehicles that operate only in the county limits (like utility vehicles, ATVs, etc.), and the ones used outside the county

Călărași (Romanian pronunciation: [kələˈraʃʲ] ( listen)) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia. The capital of Călărași County is Călărași.