Protected areas in Romania

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Protected areas

This is a list of protected areas of Romania.

About 5.18% of the area of Romania has a protected status (12,360 km²), including the Danube Delta, which makes half of these areas (2.43% of Romania's area).

1 Biosphere reserves
2 National parks
3 Natural Parks
4 Scientific reservations
5 Natural monuments
6 Natural reservations
7 References

[edit] Biosphere reserves

There are 3 biosphere reserves, totaling 6644.46 km²:

Name	Area (km²)	Counties
Danube Delta	5,800.00	Tulcea, Constanţa
Retezat	380.47	Hunedoara
Rodna	463.99	Bistriţa-Năsăud, Maramureş, Suceava

[edit] National parks

Ceahlău Massif

There are 13 national parks totaling 3158.6 km²:

Name	Area (km²)	Counties
Domogled-Valea Cernei	601.00	Caraş-Severin, Mehedinţi, Gorj
Rodna	463.99	Bistriţa-Năsăud, Maramureş, Suceava
Retezat	380.47	Hunedoara
Cheile Nerei-Beuşniţa	371.00	Caraş-Severin
Semenic-Cheile Caraşului	366.64	Caraş Severin
Călimani	240.41	Bistriţa-Năsăud, Harghita, Mureş, Suceava
Cozia	171.00	Vâlcea
Piatra Craiului	148.00	Argeş, Braşov
Munţii Măcinului	113.21	Tulcea
Defileul Jiului^[1]^[2]	111.27	Gorj, Hunedoara
Ceahlău	83.96	Neamţ
Cheile Bicazului-Hăşmaş	65.75	Harghita, Neamţ
Buila-Vânturăriţa	41.86	Valcea

[edit] Natural Parks

Vânători Neamţ Park

There are 13 natural parks totaling 7282.72 km²:

Name	Area (km²)	Counties
Muntii Maramureşului	1488.50	Maramureş
Porţile de Fier	1156.55	Caraş-Severin, Mehedinţi
Mehedinti Plateau geopark	1060	Mehedinţi
Tara Hategului dinosaur geopark	1023.92	Caraş-Severin, Mehedinţi
Munţii Apuseni	757.84	Alba, Bihor, Cluj
Putna-Vrancea	382	Vrancea
Bucegi	326.63	Argeş, Braşov, Dâmboviţa, Prahova
Vânători Neamţ	308.18	Neamţ
Balta Mică a Brăilei	175.29	Brăila
Grădiştea Muncelului-Cioclovina	100.00	Hunedoara
Comana	249.63	Giurgiu

[edit] Scientific reservations

There are 55 such reservations totaling 1112.77 km².

[edit] Natural monuments

There are 234 natural monuments totaling 77.05 km².

[edit] Natural reservations

There are 617 natural reservations totaling 2043.55 km².

[edit] References

v • d • e Protected areas of Romania

Biosphere reserve	Danube Delta · Retezat · Rodna

National parks	Călimani · Ceahlău · Cheile Bicazului-Hăşmaş · Cheile Nerei-Beuşniţa · Domogled-Valea Cernei · Măcin Mountains · Piatra Craiului Mountains · Semenic-Cheile Caraşului · Vânători Neamţ

Nature parks	Apuseni Mountains · Balta Mică a Brăilei · Bucegi Mountains · Grădiştea Muncelului-Cioclovina · Iron Gates

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