Alba County

Alba County

Județul Alba
Alba County Județul Alba
County
	Coat of arms
	Location of Alba County in Romania
Country	Romania
Development region1	Centru
Historic region	Transylvania
County seat	Alba Iulia
Government
• Type	County Board
• President of the County Board	Ion Dumitrel (PDL)
• Prefect2	Dan Simedru-Coriolan
Area
• Total	6,242 km2 (2,410 sq mi)
• Rank	16th in Romania
Population
• Total	327,224
• Rank	29th in Romania
• Density	52/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	51wxyz3
Area code	+40 x584
Car Plates	AB5
GDP	US$ 3.77 billion (2008)
GDP/capita	US$ 9,842 (2008)
Website	County Board; County Prefecture
	1The developing regions of Romania have no administrative role. They were formed to attract 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 to have any political activity in the first six months after the resignation (or exclusion) from the public functionaries corp; 3w, x, y, and z are digits that indicate the city, the street, part of the street, or eaven 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 utilitary vehicles & ATVs, etc.) and the ones used outside the county