Galaţi

Galaţi
Galaţi, Romania near a river
Coat of arms
Location of Galaţi
Coordinates:
Country	Romania
County	Galaţi County
Status	County capital
Government
• Mayor	Dumitru Nicolae (Social Democratic Party)
Area
• City	246.3 km2 (95.1 sq mi)
Population  (2002)
• City	298,861
• Density	1,213/km2 (3,140/sq mi)
• Metro	roughly 600,000
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Website	http://www.primaria.galati.ro/

Map of galaţi and surroundings

Galaţi (pronounced [gaˈlaʦʲ] in Romanian, Turkish: Kalas; German: Galatz; Polish: Gałacz English: simply Galati) is a city in the eastern part of Romania, in the historical region of Moldavia. It is the capital city of Galaţi County.

It lies on the west bank of the Danube River, near Moldova and Ukraine.

As of 2011, about 196,003 people lived in Galaţi. But in 2016, 304,000 people were living in Galaţi.

Sister cities

• Coventry, England; since 1963.
• Piraeus, Greece; since 1985.
• Wuhan, China; since 1987.
• Pessac, France; since 1991.
• Limón, Costa Rica; since 1992.
• Hammond, United States; since 1997.
• Mykolaiv, Ukraine; since 2002.
• Odesa, Ukraine; since 2002.
• Sevastopol, Ukraine; since 2002.
• Yalta, Ukraine; since 2002.
• Ancona, Italy.
• Jesi, Italy; since 2003.
• Scottsbluff, United States; since 2007
• Bombay, India; since 2007.
• Brindisi, Italy; since 2007.

Other websites

• (in Romanian) Official site Archived 2009-01-30 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Romanian) Pictures of old Galaţi