Rupea

Rupea
Town
Location of Rupea
Rupea Location of Rupea
Coordinates: 46°2′20″N 25°13′21″E / 46.03889°N 25.22250°E / 46.03889; 25.22250Coordinates: 46°2′20″N 25°13′21″E / 46.03889°N 25.22250°E / 46.03889; 25.22250
Country	Romania
County	Brașov County
Status	Town
Government
• Mayor	Flavius Dumitrescu (Democratic Liberal Party)
Area
• Total	74.87 km2 (28.91 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	5,011
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Website	http://primariarupea.ro/

Rupea (German Reps; Hungarian: Kőhalom, "mound of rocks"; Latin Ripa) is a town in Brașov County in Transylvania, Romania. It administers one village, Fișer (Schweischer; Sövénység), which has a fortified church. Older Romanian names for the settlement include Cohalm and Holuma. At the 2011 census, 71.6% of inhabitants were Romanians, 19.5% Hungarians, 7.1% Roma and 1.7% Germans.

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