Gorj County
Gorj County is a county of Romania, in Oltenia, with its capital city at Târgu Jiu. Gorj comes from the Slavic Gornji Jiu, in contrast with Dolnji.- Type: county of Romania with 315,000 residents
- Description: county in Romania
- Also known as: “Bezirk Gorj”, “Comtat de Gorj”, “County Gorj”, “Gorjin piirikunta”, “Judet de Gorj”, “Judeţ de gorj”, “Judeţul Gorj”, “județul Gorj”, “Okrožje Gorj”, “RO-GJ”, “RO412”, and “Окръг Горж”
- Neighbors: Hunedoara County
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Endless Column.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Târgu Jiu and Bălani.
Gorj County
- Location: Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
45.0464° or 45° 2′ 47″ north
Longitude
23.2828° or 23° 16′ 58″ east
Population
315,000
Elevation
211 metres (692 feet)
Open location code
8GQ527WM+G4
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Gorj County” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Gorj”
- Amharic: “ጎርጅ ክስተት”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة غورج”
- Aragonese: “Provincia de Gorj”
- Azerbaijani: “Qorj (judets)”
- Azerbaijani: “Qorj”
- Basque: “Gorj konderria”
- Belarusian: “Горж”
- Belarusian: “жудзец Горж”
- Bengali: “গর্জ কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Gorj (okrug)”
- Bosnian: “Gorj”
- Bulgarian: “Горж”
- Catalan: “Província de Gorj”
- Cebuano: “Gorj”
- Chinese: “戈尔日县”
- Chinese: “戈爾日縣”
- Croatian: “Gorj”
- Czech: “Gorj”
- Danish: “Gorj”
- Dutch: “District Gorj”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Gorj”
- Estonian: “Gorji maakond”
- Finnish: “Gorj”
- French: “Gorj”
- French: “Județ de Gorj”
- Galician: “Condado de Gorj”
- Georgian: “გორჟის ჟუდეცი”
- German: “Kreis Gorj”
- Greek: “Τζουντέτς του Γκορζ”
- Gujarati: “ગોર્જ કાઉન્ટી”
- Hausa: “Gorj County”
- Hebrew: “גורז‘”
- Hebrew: “גורז’”
- Hindi: “गोर्ज काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Gorj megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Gorj”
- Irish: “Gorj”
- Italian: “distretto di Gorj”
- Italian: “Distretto di Gorj”
- Japanese: “ゴルジュ県”
- Javanese: “Gorj County”
- Kannada: “ಗೊರ್ಜ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Kazakh: “Горж округі”
- Kirghiz: “Горж округу”
- Korean: “고르지주”
- Ladino: “Gorj”
- Latin: “Gorj”
- Latvian: “Goržas žudecs”
- Lithuanian: “Goržo apskritis”
- Lombard: “Distret de Gorj”
- Malay: “Wilayah Gorj”
- Marathi: “गोरज काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gorj Koān”
- Mongolian: “Горж аймаг”
- Mongolian: “Горж тойрог”
- Northern Frisian: “Gorj (Kreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Gorj”
- Northern Sami: “Gorj guovlu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gorj fylke”
- Norwegian: “Gorj”
- Oromo: “Gorj County”
- Panjabi: “ਗੋਰਜ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “شهرستان گورژ”
- Polish: “Okręg Gorj”
- Portuguese: “Gorj”
- Pushto: “گورج کاؤنټی”
- Romanian: “Gorj”
- Romanian: “Județul Gorj”
- Russian: “Горж”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gorj (Siorrachd)”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gorj”
- Serbian: “Gorž”
- Serbian: “Горж”
- Serbian: “Жупанија Горж”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gorj”
- Sinhala: “ගොර්ජ් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Gorj”
- Slovenian: “Județul Gorj”
- Somali: “Gorj County”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Gorj”
- Spanish: “Gorj”
- Swahili: “Gorj County”
- Swedish: “Gorj”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Gorƶ”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Горж”
- Tamil: “கோர்ஜ் கவுண்டி”
- Tatar: “Горж”
- Telugu: “గోర్జ్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลกอร์ฌ”
- Turkish: “Gorj ili”
- Turkish: “Gorj”
- Ukrainian: “Горж”
- Urdu: “گورژ کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Gorj County”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Gorj”
- Walloon: “Gorj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kondado han Gorj”
- Welsh: “Sir Gorj”
- Western Panjabi: “گورج کاؤنٹی”
- Western Panjabi: “گورچ کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “戈尔日县”
- “Județul Gorj”
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