Cernat ( hu, Csernáton; Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in

Covasna County Covasna County (, hu, Kovászna megye, ) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Sfântu Gheorghe. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 210,177, making it the second least populous of Romania ...

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...

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

composed of three villages: *Albiș / Kézdialbis *Cernat / Csernáton *Icafalău / Ikafalva It formed part of Háromszék district of the

Székely Land The Székely Land or Szeklerland ( hu, Székelyföld, ; ro, Ținutul Secuiesc and sometimes ; german: Szeklerland; la, Terra Siculorum) is a historic and ethnographic area in Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians. I ...

region in historical Transylvania. Cernat village was formed with the merger of two villages, Cernatu de Jos (''Alsócsernáton'') and Cernatu de Sus (''Felsőcsernáton'').

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2011

Census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

it has a population of 3,956 of which 98.51% or 3,897 are Székely Hungarians.

References

Communes in Covasna County Localities in Transylvania {{Covasna-geo-stub