Ulieș () is a commune in

Harghita County Harghita County (, and , ) is a county () in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc. Demographics 2002 census In 2002, Harghita County had a population of 326,222 and a population density of ...

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. It lies in the

Székely Land The Székely Land or Szeklerland (, , Old Hungarian script, Székely runes: 𐲥𐳋𐳓𐳉𐳗𐳌𐳞𐳖𐳇; and sometimes ; ; ) is a historic and ethnographic area in present-day Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hung ...

, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The commune is composed of eight villages: Daia (''Székelydálya''), Iașu (''Jásfalva''), Ighiu (''Ége''), Nicolești (''Miklósfalva''), Obrănești (''Abránfalva''), Petecu (''Petek''), Ulieș, and Vasileni (''Homoródszentlászló''). The route of the

Via Transilvanica Via Transilvanica 'The Transylvanian Trail' is a hiking trail that crosses the Transylvania, Bukovina and Banat regions of Romania, and is meant to promote their cultural, ethnic, historical and natural diversity. It was built between 2018 and ...

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passes through the villages of Daia, Iașu, and Ulieș.

Demographics

The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority. According to the 2002 census it had a population of 1,273, of which 98.59% or 1,255 were Hungarians. At the 2011 census, the commune had 1,193 inhabitants; of those, 91.03% were Hungarians, 4.78%

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, and 1.17%

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. At the 2021 census, Ulieș had a population of 1,068, of which 90.17% were Hungarians.

References

Communes in Harghita County Localities in Transylvania Székely communities {{Harghita-geo-stub