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Lăpuș (formerly Lăpușul Românesc; ) is a commune in Maramureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Lăpuș.

Key facts

Romanian subdivision.type
commune
Romanian subdivision.county
Maramureș
Romanian subdivision.name
Lăpuș
Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
Biserica de lemn din Lăpus (31).JPG
Romanian subdivision.image_caption
Dormition of the Theotokos wooden church in Lăpuș
Romanian subdivision.image_map
Lapus jud Maramures.png
Romanian subdivision.map_caption
Location in Maramureș County
Romanian subdivision.leader_name
Cristina Buda
Romanian subdivision.leader_party
PNL
Romanian subdivision.leader_term
2020–2024
Romanian subdivision.elevation
393
Romanian subdivision.area_total
50
Romanian subdivision.population_total
auto
Romanian subdivision.postal_code
437175
Romanian subdivision.area_code
+40 262

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official name
Lăpuș
Capital
Lăpuș
Population
3278
Area
50.000000
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Official website
www.primaria/lapus.ro
Image
Biserica de lemn din Lăpus (31).JPG
Length
119
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Commons category
Lăpuș commune, Maramureș
native label
Wallachisch Laposch
contains settlement
Lăpuș
postal code
437175
phone number
+40-262381566
street address
nr.1027, 437175, Lapus
population by native language
8
email address
mailto:[email protected]
inception
1505-00-00
historical region
Transylvania
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • History
  • Demographics
  • Natives
  • Notes
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Lăpuș (formerly Lăpușul Românesc; ) is a commune in Maramureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Lăpuș.

==Geography== The commune is located in the southern part of the county, east of the town of Târgu Lăpuș, the center of the ethnographic region. It is situated at an altitude of , in a hilly area to the west of the Țibleș Mountains, on the banks of the Lăpuș River.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lăpuș” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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