Timiș County 5.21

Timiș is a county of western Romania on the border with Hungary and Serbia, in the historical region Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is the westernmost and the largest county in Romania in terms of land area. The county is also part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion.NameThe name of the county comes from the river Timiș, known in Roman antiquity as river Tibisis or Tibiscus.In Hungarian, it is known as Temes megye, German as Kreis Temesch, in Serbian as Тамиш / Tamiš, in Ukrainian as Ті́міш, and in Banat Bulgarian as.DemographicsIn 2000, it had a population of 684,506 and the population density was 79/km².In 2011, it had a population of 683,540 and the population density was 78/km².Romanians - 85.52%Hungarians - 5.43%Roma - 2.23%Germans - 1.3%Serbs - 2%Ukrainians - 0.91%Bulgarians - 0.8%other - 0.7%