Argeș county

Argeș County Județul Argeș
County
Vidraru Lake and Dam in northern Argeș County
Coat of arms
Location of Argeș County in Romania
Coordinates: 45°00′N 24°49′E / 45.0°N 24.82°E / 45.0; 24.82Coordinates: 45°00′N 24°49′E / 45.0°N 24.82°E / 45.0; 24.82
Country	Romania
Development region1	Sud
Historic region	Muntenia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Pitești
Government
• Type	County Board
• President of the County Board	Constantin Nicolescu (PSD)
• Prefect2	Cristian Soare
Area
• Total	6,862 km2 (2,649 sq mi)
Area rank	10th in Romania
Population (2011 census)
• Total	612,431
• Rank	10th in Romania
• Density	89/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	11wxyz3
Area code(s)	+40 x484
ISO 3166 code	RO-AG
Car Plates	AG5
GDP	US$ 6.2 billion (2008)
GDP/capita	US$ 9,488 (2008)
Website	County Board County Prefecture
1The development regions of Romania have no administrative role and were formed in order to manage funds from the European Union. 2 as of 2007, the Prefect is not a politician, but a public functionary. He (or she) is not allowed to be a member of a political party, and is banned from having any political activity in the first six months after his resignation (or exclusion) from the public functionaries' corps. 3w, x, y, and z are digits that indicate the city, the street, part of the street, or even the building of the address 4x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks 5used on both the plates of the vehicles that operate only in the county limits (like utility vehicles, ATVs, etc.), and the ones used outside the county

Argeș (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈard͡ʒeʃ]) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Pitești.

In October 20, 2011, it had a population of 612,431 and the population density was 89/km².

This county has a total area of 6,862 km². The relief can be split into 3 distinctive parts. In the north side there are the mountains, from the Southern Carpathians group – the Făgăraș Mountains with Moldoveanu Peak (2,544 m), Negoiu Peak (2,535 m) and Vânătoarea lui Buteanu peak (2,508 m) towering the region, and in the North-East part the Leaotă Mountains. Between them there is a pass towards Brașov, the Rucăr-Bran Passage. The heights decrease, and in the center there are the sub-carpathian hills, with heights around 800 m, crossed with very deep valleys. In the south there is the northern part of the Romanian Plain.

The main river that crosses the county is the Argeș River in which almost all the other rivers coming from the mountains flow. In the south the main rivers are the Vedea River and the Teleorman River.

The county is one of the most industrialized counties in Romania. There is one oil refinery and two automobile plants at Mioveni – the Dacia Renault car plant, and at Câmpulung the ARO plant.