Cernat (;
Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in
Covasna County
Covasna County (, , ) is a county (județ) of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Sfântu Gheorghe.
Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 210,177, making it the second least populous of Romania's 41 counties and the ...
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Transylvania
Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
composed of three villages: Albiș (''Kézdialbis''), Cernat, and Icafalău (''Ikafalva'').
It formed part of Háromszék district of 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 ...
region in historical Transylvania. Cernat village was formed with the merger of two villages, Cernatu de Jos (''Alsócsernáton'') and Cernatu de Sus (''Felsőcsernáton'').
Demographics
The commune has an absolute
Székely Hungarian majority. According to the
2011 census, Cernat had a population of 3,956, of which 98.51% or 3,897 were Székely Hungarians. At the
2021 census, the commune had a population of 3,936.
References
Communes in Covasna County
Localities in Transylvania
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