Drajna is a commune in

Prahova County Prahova County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical region Muntenia, with the capital city at Ploiești. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 762,886 and the population density was 161/k ...

Muntenia Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the rarely used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in Ro ...

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. It is composed of eleven villages: Cătunu, Ciocrac, Drajna de Jos, Drajna de Sus (the commune centre), Făget, Ogretin, Piatra, Pițigoi, Plai, Podurile, and Poiana Mierlei. The river Drajna flows through the commune; it discharges into the

Teleajen The Teleajen is a left tributary of the river Prahova in southern Romania. Its source is at elevation in the Ciucaș Mountains, north of Roșu Peak and the locality of Cheia. Upstream from its confluence with the Gropșoarele in Cheia, it is a ...

in Piatra. In the hamlet of Făget there was once a Transport Museum, installed in the ''Hanul Roșu'' ed Inn a former stop on the Transylvania-Wallachia trade route. The museum closed in 1980, and the inn was destroyed by a fire in 1998.https://republikanews.ro/han-monument-istoric-ruina-povestea-hanului-rosu-de-la-faget/

Natives

* Mihai Drăgănescu (1929–2010), engineer, President of the Romanian Academy (1990–1994) * Dumitru Enescu (1930–2012), geophysicist and engineer

References

Drajna Localities in Muntenia {{Prahova-geo-stub