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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: county of Romania with 315,000 residents
- Description: county in Romania
- Also known as: “RO412”
- Neighbors: Hunedoara County
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Endless Column and Gate of the Kiss.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Târgu Jiu and Bălani.
Târgu Jiu
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Târgu Jiu is a city in Oltenia, Romania. It is a very old city and has had a strong tradition of mining, until 1998 when most mines were closed. It is the birthplace of the famous sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, and some of his earliest works can be admired here.
Bălani
Village
Photo: Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bălani is a village, which is situated 5 km northwest of Gorj County.
Ursați
Village
Photo: Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ursați is a village, which is situated 5 km northwest of Gorj County.
Gorj County
- Location: Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Gorj County” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Gorj”
- 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”
- Bulgarian: “Окръг Горж”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Gorj”
- Catalan: “Província de Gorj”
- Cebuano: “Gorj”
- Chinese: “Gorj Koān”
- Chinese: “戈尔日县”
- Chinese: “戈爾日縣”
- Croatian: “Gorj”
- Czech: “Gorj”
- Danish: “Gorj”
- Dutch: “District Gorj”
- Dutch: “Gorj”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Gorj”
- Esperanto: “Gorj”
- Estonian: “Gorji maakond”
- Finnish: “Gorj”
- Finnish: “Gorjin piirikunta”
- French: “Gorj”
- French: “Judet de Gorj”
- French: “Judeţ de gorj”
- French: “Județ de Gorj”
- Galician: “Condado de Gorj”
- Galician: “Gorj”
- Georgian: “გორჟის ჟუდეცი”
- German: “Bezirk Gorj”
- German: “Gorj”
- German: “Kreis Gorj”
- German: “RO-GJ”
- Greek: “Τζουντέτς του Γκορζ”
- Gujarati: “ગોર્જ કાઉન્ટી”
- Hebrew: “גורז‘”
- Hebrew: “גורז’”
- Hindi: “गोर्ज काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Gorj megye”
- Indonesian: “County Gorj”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Gorj”
- Irish: “Gorj”
- Italian: “distretto di Gorj”
- Italian: “Distretto di Gorj”
- Italian: “Județul Gorj”
- Japanese: “ゴルジュ県”
- Kannada: “ಗೊರ್ಜ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- 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 fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gorj fylke”
- Norwegian: “Gorj”
- Persian: “شهرستان گورژ”
- Polish: “Okręg Gorj”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Gorj”
- Portuguese: “Gorj”
- Romanian: “Gorj”
- Romanian: “Judetul Gorj”
- Romanian: “Judeţul gorj”
- Romanian: “Județul Gorj”
- Russian: “Горж”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gorj (Siorrachd)”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gorj”
- Serbian: “Gorž”
- Serbian: “Judeţul Gorj”
- Serbian: “Горж”
- Serbian: “Жупанија Горж”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gorj”
- Sinhala: “ගොර්ජ් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Gorj”
- Slovenian: “Județul Gorj”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Gorj”
- Slovenian: “RO-GJ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Gorj”
- Spanish: “Gorj”
- Swedish: “Gorj”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Gorƶ”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Горж”
- Tamil: “கோர்ஜ் கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “గోర్జ్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลกอร์ฌ”
- Turkish: “Gorj ili”
- Turkish: “Gorj”
- Ukrainian: “Горж”
- Urdu: “گورژ کاؤنٹی”
- 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”
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