In Hunedoara, Alba, Cara Severin or Timisoara, we find settlements that could fit into a larger residential area. The country has about 20 settlements with a population of less than 500, according to INS data valid for 2022.

Below are the smallest cities in Romania in 2022:

• About the town old from Hunedoara, it was written. It is the smallest in the country, has about 120 inhabitants, of which 97 have the right to vote.

• There is a second one Asked-Băcăinţi from Alba County. The Town Hall even has a separate website from which we learn: “We can talk about a population that has preserved over time cultural traditions of great value and that has a specific, unchanging way of life that has survived over time due to the lack of modern infrastructure and easy connection with the urban environment . The depopulation process of recent decades has led to an aging population. Most of those who remained, elderly people, preserved in oral collective memory an archaic model of life, with traditions and customs of a clearly agricultural and pastoral character. The population of the Cheru-Bakainti commune is 360 people, all of them profess the Orthodox faith,” the message reads. on the website of the city hall.

• Then we have Bulzestii de Sus – Hunedoara. All from City Hall website we find: At the confluence of the Bihor Mountains and the Zarandului Mountains, in the northern part of the Brad-Halmagiu depression, in a particularly picturesque area, the village of Bulzestiy de Sous is located. Located in the northern part of the county of Hunedoara at a distance of 76 km from his residence and 29 km from the city of Bred, the commune of Bulzesti de Sous belongs to the category of mountain and mountain areas. The name Bulzeşti comes from the masculine noun bulz, which means lumps, in this case lumps of stone, to which the suffix eşti is added, completing the name of the area. Documentary evidence of the commune of Bulzestiy de Sus, according to the Historical Dictionary of Transylvanian Localities by Coriolan Suchiu, dates back to 1441, when the name was first mentioned in official Hungarian documents. The relief is very uneven, and the degree of fertility of the land is particularly low. This conclusion is also supported by the arable surface of the area, which is only 333 ha, which has the 5th degree of fertility, that is, the lowest, a situation typical of the entire territory of the Apuseni Mountains. This fact is also one of the reasons why these areas are called disadvantaged.

Otherwise, the smallest 100 settlements would fit together in a city the size of Slatina or Calaras, and the first smallest 1000 settlements would fit in Bucharest.