Praid (, Hungarian pronunciation: ; ) is a commune in

Harghita County Harghita County (, and , ) is a county () in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc. Demographics 2002 census In 2002, Harghita County had a population of 326,222 and a population density of ...

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. It lies in the

Székely Land The Székely Land or Szeklerland (, , Old Hungarian script, Székely runes: 𐲥𐳋𐳓𐳉𐳗𐳌𐳞𐳖𐳇; and sometimes ; ; ) is a historic and ethnographic area in present-day Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hung ...

, an ethno-cultural region in eastern

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, and is composed of six villages: Becaș (''Békástanya''), Bucin (''Bucsin''), Ocna de Jos (''Alsósófalva''), Ocna de Sus (''Felsősófalva''), Praid (''Parajd''), and Șașvereș (''Sásverés''). The route of the

Via Transilvanica Via Transilvanica 'The Transylvanian Trail' is a hiking trail that crosses the Transylvania, Bukovina and Banat regions of Romania, and is meant to promote their cultural, ethnic, historical and natural diversity. It was built between 2018 and ...

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passes through the villages of Șașvereș and Praid.

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Hungarian ( Székely) majority. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 6,502, of which 91.68% are Hungarian and 2.65% Roma. The 2002 Census reported 69.36% of the total population belonging to the Protestant Hungarian Reformed Church, while

Roman Catholicism The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

is professed by 22.46% of the respondents.Romanian Census 2002
retrieved on June 25, 2010

Natives

* Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon (1884–1976), commanding general of the Royal Hungarian Army

Tourism

The commune's chief economic activity centers around the Praid salt mine that provides salt for both industrial and gastronomical use and attracts over 400,000 tourists every year.

External links

www.parajd.lap.hu

Salt mine official site

References

{{Communes of Harghita County Communes in Harghita County Localities in Transylvania Székely communities Mining communities in Romania

Demographics

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Tourism

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