Cahul County was a

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

( ro,

județ A ''județ'' (, plural ) is an administrative division in Romania, and was also used from 1940 to 1947 in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1998 to 2003 in Moldova. ''Județ'' translates into English as "jurisdiction", but is com ...

) in

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from 1998 to 2003, with the seat at

Cahul Cahul (; also known by other alternative names) is a city and municipality in southern Moldova. The city is the administrative center of Cahul District; it also administers one village, Cotihana. As of 2014 census, the city has had a populatio ...

. Its population in 2002 was 179,209. The county bordered

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

(west) and

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(southeast), with the Moldovan counties of Lăpuşna and

Taraclia County Taraclia County ( ro, Județul Taraclia, bg, Тараклия окръг) was a counties of Moldova, county (Romanian language, Romanian: ''județ'') in Moldova from 1999 to 2003. It was established on 22 October 1999. It borders Ukraine, Lăpuș ...

(in the

Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia Gagauzia or Gagauz-Yeri, or ; ro, Găgăuzia; russian: Гагаузия, Gagauziya officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia; ro, Unitatea Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia, ''UTAG''; russian: Автономное территор ...

Description

Cahul County was formed in 1998 on the territory of the former Moldovan districts of

, Cantemir and

Vulcănești Vulcănești (; gag, Valkaneş) is a town in Gagauzia, Moldova. The area of Vulcănești is the southern exclave of Gagauzia surrounded by the Cahul District (Moldova) and Odessa Region (Ukraine). One village-rail station also named Vulcăneș ...

. Geographically, the county was located in Prutul de Jos Plain, the Western Black Sea Plain, and Tigheci Plateau.

History

On 22 October 1999, part of Cahul County was detached and established as

References

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