Râmnicelu is a commune located in

Brăila County Brăila County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Brăila. Demographics At the 2021 Romanian census, Brăila County had a population of 281,452 (172,533 people in urban areas and 108,919 people in rural ...

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 has four villages: Boarca, Constantinești, Mihail Kogălniceanu (formerly ''Domnița''), and Râmnicelu. The commune is situated in the upper reaches of the

Bărăgan Plain The Bărăgan Plain ( ) is a steppe plain in south-eastern Romania. It makes up much of the eastern part of the Wallachian Plain. The region is known for its black soil and a rich humus, and is mostly a cereal-growing area. It is bounded on the s ...

. It lies on both banks of the

Buzău River Buzău (; formerly spelled ''Buzeu'' or ''Buzĕu'') is a city in the historical region of Muntenia, Romania, and the county seat of Buzău County. It lies near the right bank of the Buzău River, between the south-eastern curvature of the Car ...

, with Râmnicelu on the southern side and the three other villages on the northern side, connected by a bridge in Boarca. Râmnicelu is located in the northwestern part of the county, north of the town of

Ianca Ianca () is a town in Brăila County, Muntenia, Romania. With a population of 8,969 people as of 2021, it is the second-largest urban locality in the county. The town's area is , of which have the status of residential area. The town administers ...

and west of the county seat, the city of

Brăila Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The Sud-Est (development region), ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila. According to the 2021 Romanian ...

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DJ221, which runs from Brăila to Iancu, passes through Râmnicelu village. Its neighbors are the following communes: Scorțaru Nou to the northeast, Gemenele to the east, Movila Miresii to the south, Șuțești to the southwest, and Racovița to the west and northwest. At the 2011 census, 86.11% of inhabitants were

Romanians Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, ...

and 11.57%

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. It was in Ion Sion, part of Râmnicelu, that on 10 August 1951, Romania's hottest temperature on record, , was observed. Much of the

phreatic zone The phreatic zone, saturated zone, or zone of saturation, is the part of an aquifer, below the water table The water table is the upper surface of the phreatic zone or zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where the pores and fractur ...

under Râmnicelu is contaminated with

nitrate Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula . salt (chemistry), Salts containing this ion are called nitrates. Nitrates are common components of fertilizers and explosives. Almost all inorganic nitrates are solubility, soluble in wa ...

s and

nitrite The nitrite polyatomic ion, ion has the chemical formula . Nitrite (mostly sodium nitrite) is widely used throughout chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The nitrite anion is a pervasive intermediate in the nitrogen cycle in nature. The name ...

s, which are chemicals that cannot be eliminated by boiling the water from wells.

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Communes in Brăila County Localities in Muntenia {{Brăila-geo-stub