Ungheni ( ; ) is a
town
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in
Mureș County
Mureș County (, , ) is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical region of Transylvania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș. The county was established in 1968, after the administrative reor ...
, in
Transylvania
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,
Romania
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. Until 1925 its Romanian name was ''Nirașteu''. Six villages are administered by the town: Cerghid (''Nagycserged''), Cerghizel (''Kiscserged''), Morești (''Malomfalva''), Recea (''Recsa''), Șăușa (''Sóspatak''), and Vidrasău (''Vidrátszeg'').
Location
Ungheni is situated from the county capital
Târgu Mureș
Târgu Mureș (, ; ; German language, German: ''Neumarkt am Mieresch'') is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the list of cities and towns in Romania, 16th-largest city in Romania, with 116,033 ...
, from
Reghin
Reghin (; , or ; ; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Reen'') is a city in Mureș County, Transylvania, central Romania, on the Mureș River. As of 2021, it had a population of 29,742, making it the second biggest city of the Mureș county, just behind th ...
, and from
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...
. The
Târgu Mureș International Airport is located in Vidrasău, southwest of the county capital.
The town is bordered by the following communes: to the north by
Band and
Pănet, to the south by
Suplac and
Mica
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, to the east by
Cristești, and to the west by
Sânpaul. It is crossed by the
A3 motorway, which runs from
Bucharest
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to the
Hungarian border near
Oradea
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. The
General Nicolae Dăscălescu train station serves the
CFR Line 405, which connects
Deda to
Războieni-Cetate, passing through Târgu Mureș and
Luduș.
Demographics
At the
2021 census, Ungheni had a population of 7,007. At the
2011 census, the town has a population of 6,945; of those, 5,053 (76.3%) were
Romanians
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, 984 (14.85%)
Roma, 576 (8.69%)
Hungarians
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, and 4 (0.06%) others.
Natives
*
Erasmus Julius Nyárády (1881–1966), botanist
See also
*
Transilvania Motor Ring
References
Towns in Romania
Populated places in Mureș County
Localities in Transylvania
Székely communities
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