Bihor County

Natural landscape end environment

Geographic position.
Bihor County is located in the northwestern part of the country, at the intersection of the 46th North parallel with the 22nd East meridian. It neighbors the Satu Mare, Salaj Counties, and Cluj Counties to the east, Arad and Alba Counties to its south and southeast, and Hungary to its west.

Oradea Municipality, is the administrative, social, and cultural center of the county and has a population of 205.077 inhabitants, which represents 34.5% of the entire county's population. The municipality accomplishes 63% of the county's industrial production, with traditional industrial branches, such as the light industry (ready made clothes, footwear, leather, textiles, furs), food, chemical, machine constructions industry, non-ferrous iron and steel industry, and furniture manufacturing industry.

Oradea Municipality was mentioned in 1113 for the first time, in the documents of the time. Oradea, located on the Crisul Repede Valley, at the connection point of the Oradea hills with the Western plain, is one of the most significant economic, social, and cultural centers in northwestern Romania.

The development of the town was encouraged by the existence of a traffic key point, with five traffic directions: Cluj-Napoca (≈150 km), Satu Mare (≈120 km), Deva (≈185 km), Timisoara (≈180 km), Bors-Budapesta (≈250 km). We can mention also the distances until some european capitals: Bucuresti (≈600 km), Viena (≈500 km), Praga (≈750 km), Bratislava (≈ 440 km), Belgrad (≈ 330 km).

Bors Commune is the biggest cross border check point for road traffic at Romania's western border, which is only 10 kilometers away from Oradea.
Episcopia Bihor railroad cross border checkpoint is also located 10 kilometers away from Oradea.
Oradea has an airport that also can offer possibilities to the international commercial traffic and has daily flights to Bucharest.

Oradea Municipality has yet another important function, that dealing in social, cultural, and commercial problems, with local and territorial character. Its main feature is represented through its education and cultural units, health care units and through a commercial network, characterized through a wide process of development and modernization.

City having a very rich cultural life, Oradea Municipality enjoys and impressive number of architectonic monuments, such as:

Oradea fortress, built over 1114-1131 and rebuilt in its incumbent form, starting with 1589;
the Baroque Palace and the Monks Corridor (1773), a masterpiece signed by the Austrian architect Hillebrandt;
the Roman Catholic Cathedral, the biggest baroque monument of Romania;
the Neologue Synagogue (1878);
the State Theater (1899-1900);
the Greek-Catholic Bishopric (1903);
the Orthodox Church with Moon (1784-1790);
"Emanuel" Baptist Church, which is the second biggest one in Europe
the Black Eagle Palace.

Local office Flanders Investment and Trade
Romania (Bucharest)

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Dhr. Dirk Timmerman
Flemish Economic Representative

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Rumania