Râmnicelu is a commune located in Brăila County,

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. It has four villages: Boarca, Constantinești, Mihail Kogălniceanu (formerly ''Domnița''), and Râmnicelu. The commune is situated in the upper reaches of the

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. It lies on both banks of the

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, with Râmnicelu on the southern side and the three other villages on the northern side, connected by a bridge in Boarca. Râmnicelu is located in the northwestern part of the county, north of the town of Ianca and west of the county seat, the city of

Brăila Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila. According to the 2011 Romanian census there were 180,302 pe ...

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DJ221, which runs from Brăila to Iancu, passes through Râmnicelu village. Its neighbors are the following communes: Scorțaru Nou to the northeast,

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to the east, Movila Miresii to the south,

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to the southwest, and Racovița to the west and northwest. At the 2011 census, 86.11% of inhabitants were

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and 11.57%

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. It was in Ion Sion, part of Râmnicelu, that on 10 August 1951, Romania's hottest temperature on record, , was observed. Much of the phreatic zone under Râmnicelu is contaminated with

nitrate Nitrate is a polyatomic ion A polyatomic ion, also known as a molecular ion, is a covalent bonded set of two or more atoms, or of a metal complex, that can be considered to behave as a single unit and that has a net charge that is not zer ...

s and

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s, which are chemicals that cannot be eliminated by boiling the water from wells.

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Communes in Brăila County Localities in Muntenia {{Brăila-geo-stub