Smârdan is a commune in

Galați County Galați () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Moldavia region, with the capital city at Galați, between latitude, 45°25'N and latitude, 46°10'N latitude, longitude, 27°20'E and longitude, 28°10'E longitude. It borders the counties of Vaslu ...

Western Moldavia Western Moldavia (, ''Moldova de Apus'', or , also known as Moldavia, is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1878, the P ...

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with a population of 5,342 as of 2021. It is composed of three villages: Cișmele, Mihail Kogălniceanu, and Smârdan. The commune is located in the southern part of the county, northeast of the county seat,

Galați Galați ( , , ; also known by other #Etymology and names, alternative names) is the capital city of Galați County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in eastern Romania. Galați is a port town on the river Danube. and the sixth-larges ...

, and part of the proposed

Lower Danube metropolitan area The Danube metropolitan area or Galați–Brăila metropolitan area is a proposed metropolitan area project in Romania. It would be formed from the cities of Galați and Brăila, and 15 nearby communes from Galați, Brăila and Tulcea counties. T ...

. The

Smârdan Training Area Smârdan, as well Smîrdan or Smurdan, may refer to several places: ; Romania * Smârdan, Galați, a commune in Galați County * Smârdan, Tulcea, a commune in Tulcea County * Smârdan, a village in Brădeanu Commune, Buzău County * Smârdan, a vi ...

, covering an area of almost , is located on the territory of the commune. Established in 1951 and modernized in recent year, the facility has become a strategic point for the training of

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...

troops. The training area unit is subordinated to the

Cincu Training Center The Cincu Training Center, officially the National Joint Training Center "Getica" () is a training center and shooting range for military personnel and units up to brigade level. It is located in the commune Cincu, Brașov County in the center o ...

located in

Cincu Cincu (; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Schoink''; ) is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Cincu and Toarcla (''Tarteln''; ''Kisprázsmár''). Each of these has a fortified chur ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smardan, Galati Communes in Galați County Localities in Western Moldavia