Satulung ( Hungarian: ''Kővárhosszúfalu'';

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: ''Langendorf'') is a commune in

Maramureș County Maramureș County () is a county (județ) in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian as Мараморо́щ ...

, Romania. Its name, translated in English, means "the long village". It is composed of seven villages: Arieșu de Pădure (''Erdőaranyos''), Fersig (''Fehérszék''), Finteușu Mic (''Kisfentős''), Hideaga (''Pusztahidegkút''), Mogoșești (''Magosfalu''), Pribilești (''Pribékfalva''), and Satulung.

Geography

The commune belongs to the

Baia Mare metropolitan area Baia Mare Metropolitan Area (BMMA) is located in northwestern Romania and consists of Baia Mare City (Maramureș County seat) and localities found within a distance of . For the 2014–2020 time period, the Baia Mare Metropolitan Area was slated ...

. It is located in the southwestern part of the Maramureș County, from the county seat,

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; ; ; ) is a Municipiu, city along the Săsar, Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș, a subregion of Transylvania. It is situated about from Buchare ...

. The river

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flows through Arieșu de Pădure village. The Fersig train station serves the CFR Main Line 400, which connects

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with

and

Satu Mare Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania ...

Demographics

At the 2021 census, the population of Satulung was 6,376, of which 67.14% were ethnic

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and 23.35%

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. At the 2011 census, the population of the commune was 5,837, more than at the previous census in 2002, when 5,409 inhabitants were registered. The majority were ethnic Romanians (75.07%); the main minorities were the Roma people (19.86%) and the

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(1.59%); for 3.41% of the population, ethnicity was not known.Rezultatele finale ale Recensământului din 2011:

People

* Daniel Boldor, businessman from Baia Mare, was born in Fersig * Blanka Teleki (1806–1862), who founded a school, was born in SatulungTeleki Blanka
, Sulinet.hu, retrieved 18 July 2015

References

Communes in Maramureș County {{Maramureş-geo-stub