Porumbești (, Hungarian pronunciation: , meaning "Full of Blackthorns"; ) is a commune situated in

Satu Mare County Satu Mare County (, , ) is a county (Counties of Romania, județ) of Romania, on the border with Hungary and Ukraine. The capital city is Satu Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as ''Szatmár megye'', in German language, Ge ...

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. It is composed of two villages, Cidreag (; ) and Porumbești. These were part of

Halmeu Halmeu (, ; ) is a commune of 4,276 inhabitants situated in Satu Mare County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Băbești (''Kisbábony''), Dobolț (''Dabolc''), Halmeu, Halmeu-Vii (''Halmihegy''), and Mesteacăn (''Nyírestanya''). The co ...

Commune until 2005, when they were split off. At the 2011 census, 81.4% of inhabitants were

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, 16.8%

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and 1.6%

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. The commune is located in the northwestern part of the county, on the border with

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

and near the border with

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

, north of the country seat,

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 ...

. Its neighbors are

commune to the east, Turulung commune to the southeast, Micula commune to the southwest, and, on the Ukrainian side, commune to the west and commune to the north.

References

Communes in Satu Mare County {{SatuMare-geo-stub