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Arad County

Arad

Arad is an industrial city of some 160,000 population at the western edge of Romania, close to the border with Hungary. It is a regional transportation hub and a convenient place to stop over on a journey between those countries.
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  • Type: City with 159,000 residents
  • Description: city in Arad County, Romania
  • Also known as: “9262” and “Arad, Romania”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ioan Slavici Classical Theatre and Fortress of Arad.

Theater building
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0.
The is a theatre in the city of Arad, in the western side of . The theatre was built in 1874, and displays a neoclassical architecture style.

Castle
The is a fortification system built in the city of Arad in Kingdom of Hungary, on the left bank of the in the 18th century at the direct order of the Habsburg Queen Maria Theresa.

Castle
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0.
The is an eclectic building located in Arad. It is a historical monument. It was built in 1891–1892 by the wealthy family of Neumann. It was the biggest building in the city for a long period.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arad and Aradul Nou.

Suburb
Photo: Teodor Stoica, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Micălaca is a neighbourhood in the east of , , approximately 5 km from the city center. The Mureș River flows through the neighbourhood. It is the most populated neighbourhood in , with a population of 50.000.

Suburb
Photo: Teodor Stoica, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Teodor Stoica, CC0.
is a suburb.

Arad

Latitude
46.1754° or 46° 10′ 31″ north
Longitude
21.3196° or 21° 19′ 11″ east
Population
159,000
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
Open location code
8GR358G9+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25721593
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8305599
Wiki­data ID
Q173591
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Arad” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Arad”
  • Albanian: “Arad”
  • Arabic: “أراد”
  • Arabic: “اراد”
  • Aragonese: “Arad”
  • Armenian: “Արադ (Ռումինիա)”
  • Armenian: “Արադ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arad şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arad”
  • Basque: “Arad”
  • Belarusian: “Арад (Румынія)”
  • Belarusian: “Арад”
  • Bengali: “আরাদ”
  • Breton: “Arad”
  • Bulgarian: “Арад”
  • Catalan: “Arad”
  • Cebuano: “Municipiul Arad”
  • Chinese: “阿拉德”
  • Croatian: “Arad”
  • Czech: “Arad”
  • Danish: “Arad”
  • Dutch: “Arad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اراد”
  • Esperanto: “Arad”
  • Estonian: “Arad”
  • Extremaduran: “Arad”
  • Finnish: “Arad”
  • French: “Arad”
  • Georgian: “არადი (რუმინეთი)”
  • Georgian: “არადი”
  • German: “Arad”
  • Greek: “Αράντ”
  • Gujarati: “અરાદ”
  • Hebrew: “אראד”
  • Hebrew: “ארד”
  • Hindi: “अराड”
  • Hungarian: “Arad”
  • Ido: “Arad, Rumania”
  • Ido: “Arad”
  • Indonesian: “Arad, Rumania”
  • Indonesian: “Arad”
  • Irish: “Arad”
  • Italian: “Arad”
  • Japanese: “アラド”
  • Kannada: “ಅರಾದ್”
  • Kazakh: “Арад”
  • Korean: “아라드”
  • Latin: “Aradia”
  • Latin: “Aradinum”
  • Latvian: “Arada”
  • Lithuanian: “Aradas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Arad”
  • Macedonian: “Арад”
  • Malay: “Arad, Romania”
  • Malay: “Arad”
  • Maltese: “Arad”
  • Marathi: “अराद”
  • Mongolian: “Арад”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أراد”
  • Narom: “Arad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arad i Romania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arad”
  • Norwegian: “Arad”
  • Ossetian: “Арад (Румыни)”
  • Ossetian: “Арад”
  • Persian: “آراد”
  • Persian: “اراد”
  • Persian: “ارد”
  • Polish: “Arad”
  • Portuguese: “Arad”
  • Romanian: “Arad, România”
  • Romanian: “Arad”
  • Romanian: “Orașul Arad”
  • Russian: “Арад”
  • Rusyn: “Арад”
  • Samogitian: “Arads”
  • Scots: “Arad, Romanie”
  • Scots: “Arad”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arad”
  • Serbian: “Arad”
  • Serbian: “Арад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arad”
  • Silesian: “Arad (mjasto we Růmůńiji)”
  • Silesian: “Arad”
  • Sinhala: “අරාද්”
  • Slovak: “Arad”
  • Slovenian: “Arad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آراد”
  • Spanish: “Arad”
  • Swedish: “Arad”
  • Tajik: “Arad”
  • Tajik: “Арад”
  • Tamil: “ஆராட்”
  • Tatar: “Арад”
  • Telugu: “అరాద్”
  • Thai: “อารัด”
  • Turkish: “Arad”
  • Ukrainian: “Арад”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Arad”
  • Urdu: “آراد، رومانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Arad”
  • Venetian: “Arad”
  • Veps: “Arad”
  • Vietnamese: “Arad, România”
  • Vietnamese: “Arad. Romania”
  • Vietnamese: “Arad”
  • Vlax Romani: “Arad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arad, Romania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arad”
  • Welsh: “Arad”
  • Western Frisian: “Arad”
  • Western Panjabi: “اراد”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿拉德 (罗马尼亚)”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿拉德（罗马尼亚）”
  • “Arad”
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