Sărata is a commune in

Bacău County Bacău County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with its capital city at Bacău. It has one commune, Ghimeș-Făget, in Transylvania. Geography This county has a total area of . In the western part of the county there a ...

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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. It is composed of two villages, Bălțata and Sărata. These were part of

Nicolae Bălcescu Nicolae Bălcescu () (29 June 181929 November 1852) was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution. Early life Born in Bucharest to a family of low-ranking nobility, he used his mother ...

Commune until 2004, when they were split off. The commune is located in the central part of Bacău County, southwest of the county seat,

Bacău Bacău ( ; , ; ; ) is the main city in Bacău County, Romania. With a population of 136,087 (as of 2021 census), Bacău is the 14th largest city in Romania. The city is situated in the historical region of Moldavia, at the foothills of the ...

, just west of the George Enescu International Airport. It also borders the following communes: Luizi-Călugăra to the north, Nicolae Bălcescu to the south, and Sănduleni to the west. Sărata is crossed by

county road A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the county highway department. Route numbering can ...

DJ119, which connects Bacău to the city of

Onești Onești (; ), formerly known as Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, is a city in Bacău County, Romania, with a population of 34,005 inhabitants as of 2021. It is situated in the historical region of Moldavia. Administratively, the villages of Slobozia an ...

. Close to the commune is a large salt mine. At the 2011 census, the commune had 1,914 inhabitants; of those, 99.8% of were ethnic Romanians. At the 2021 census, the population had increased to 2,257, of which 92.16% were Romanians.

Natives

* Gheorghe Viscreanu (born 1961), footballer

References

Communes in Bacău County Localities in Western Moldavia {{Bacău-geo-stub