Country Romania Status Commune Area code(s) +40 266 | County Harghita County Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Saturday 10:17 PM | |
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Praid (Hungarian: Parajd, [ˈpɒrɒjd]; German: Salzberg) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is composed of six villages:
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Map of Praid 537240, Romania
Demographics
The commune has an absolute Hungarian (Székely) majority. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 6,846 of which 96.91% or 6,635 are Hungarian. The 2002 Census reported 69.36% of the total population belonging to the Protestant Hungarian Reformed Church, while Roman Catholicism is professed by 22.46% of the respondents.
Tourism
The commune's chief economic activity centers around the salt mine that both provides salt for industrial and attracts over 400,000 tourists every year.
References
Praid Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA