Tușnad (, 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 three villages:

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 2,117 which 92.73% or 1,963 are Hungarian.

Name

The village of Tusnád is often referred to as ''Tușnad-Sat'' or ''Tusnád-Falu'' to avoid confusion with the touristic centre of

Băile Tușnad Băile Tușnad (; , ) is a town in Harghita County, Romania in eastern Transylvania. With a population of 1,372 (as of 2021), it is the smallest town in Romania by population. It is located at an altitude of in the southern reaches of the Ciuc ...

to the south.

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also makes this distinction.

Natives

* Iuliana Simon

References

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