Lunca () is a
commune in
Bihor County
Bihor County (, ) is a county (județ) in western Romania. With a total area of , Bihor is Romania's 6th largest county geographically and the main county in the historical region of Crișana. Its capital city is Oradea (Nagyvárad).
Toponymy
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Crișana
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Romania
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. It is composed of six villages: Briheni (''Berhény''), Hotărel (''Határ''), Lunca, Sârbești (''Szerbesd''), Seghiște (''Szegyesd''), and Șuștiu (''Susd'').
Demographics
At the
2011 census, Lunca had 2,887 inhabitants, down from 3,124 inhabitants in the 2002 census.
Almost all of the inhabitants were ethnic
Romanians
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(96.95%); for 1.73% of the population, ethnicity was unknown.
[Rezultatele finale ale Recensământului din 2011: ] 94.87% of inhabitants are Orthodox, 2.63% are Pentecostal, and 1.73% are unknown.
[Rezultatele finale ale Recensământului din 2011: ] At the
2021 census, the commune had a population of 2,429; of those, 94.15% were Romanians.
References
Lunca
Localities in Crișana
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