Bălți County

Județul Bălți
County (Județ)
Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Historic region	Bessarabia
Capital city (Reședință de județ)	Bălți
Established	1925
Ceased to exist	Administrative and Constitutional Reform in 1938
Area
• Total	4,246 km2 (1,639 sq mi)
Population (1930)
• Total	386,476
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Bălți was a county (Romanian: județ) in the Kingdom of Romania between 1925 and 1938 and a county of Moldova from 1998 to 2003, with the seat at Bălți. Its population in 2003 was 500,900.

Interwar county

Neighbours

The county neighboured the counties of Soroca to the east, Orhei to the south-east, Lăpușna, Iași to the south-west, Botoșani to the north-east, and Hotin to the north.

Administration

The county consisted of six districts (plăṣi):

• Bălți
• Corneṣti
• Fălești
• Glodeni
• Râșcani
• Sângerei

After 1938

After the 1938 Administrative and Constitutional Reform, this county merged with the counties of Bacău, Baia, Botoșani, Iași, Neamț, Roman, Soroca and Vaslui to form Ținutul Prut.

See also

• Moldavian counties

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Interwar Bălți County.

• (in Romanian) Bălți County on memoria.ro
• Counties of Moldova, Statoids.com

Former counties (județe) of Moldova
Bălți Cahul Chișinău Edineț Lăpușna Orhei Soroca Taraclia Tighina Ungheni

Historical counties of Romania
Alba Arad Argeș Bacău Baia Bălți Bihor Botoșani Brașov Brăila Buzău Cahul Caliacra Câmpulung Caraș Cernăuți Cetatea Albă Ciuc Cluj Constanța Covurlui Dâmbovița Dolj Dorohoi Durostor Făgăraș Fălciu Gorj Hotin Hunedoara Ialomița Iași Ilfov Ismail Lăpușna Maramureș Mehedinți Mureș Muscel Năsăud Neamț Odorhei Olt Orhei Prahova Putna Rădăuți Râmnicu Sărat Roman Romanați Satu Mare Sălaj Severin Sibiu Someș Soroca Storojineț Suceava Târnava-Mare Târnava-Mică Tecuci Teleorman Tighina Timiș-Torontal Trei Scaune Tulcea Turda Tutova Vaslui Vâlcea Vlașca