# Which locality in Romania has the longest name?

Search results say Sâmbăta, at 27. The official registry, counted end to end by the letters rule, says Stațiunea Zoologică Marină Agigea, at 30; 26 is a miscount, and 15 is the single-word record.

## All 13,755 names, from 30 down to 2 letters

1. Stațiunea Zoologică Marină Agigea — Constanța, village — 30 letters
2. Stațiunea Climaterică Sâmbăta — Brașov, village — 27 letters
3. Colonia Sighetu Silvaniei — Sălaj, village — 23 letters
4. Constantin Brâncoveanu — Călărași, village — 21 letters
5. Constantin Gabrielescu — Brăila, village — 21 letters
6. Vităneștii de sub Măgură — Vrancea, village — 21 letters
7. Vizantea Mănăstirească — Vrancea, village — 21 letters
8. Câmpulung Moldovenesc — Suceava, component locality — 20 letters
9. Căpățânenii Pământeni — Argeș, village — 20 letters
10. Colonia Reconstrucția — Brașov, village — 20 letters

The shortest name is Ip, a Sălaj village: 2 letters, the only one in the registry. Another 75 localities have 3 letters each.

1. Ip — Sălaj, village — 2 letters
2. Zam — Hunedoara, village — 3 letters
3. Var — Sălaj, village — 3 letters
4. Var — Caraș-Severin, village — 3 letters
5. Văi — Alba, village — 3 letters
6. Vad — Neamț, village — 3 letters
7. Vad — Maramureș, village — 3 letters
8. Vad — Cluj, village — 3 letters
9. Vad — Brașov, village — 3 letters
10. Ulm — Hunedoara, village — 3 letters

## How we counted

The source is the National Institute of Statistics SIRUTA nomenclature, H1 2026: 13,755 level-3 localities — villages, component localities and the six sectors of Bucharest. Every length is recomputed from the official DENLOC field; the H1 2025 edition contains exactly the same codes with a single rename (Bâlvăneștii de Jos became Băsești), so the ranking does not depend on the edition.

A letter is any alphabetic character, including ă, â, î, ș, ț. Spaces, hyphens, digits and dots do not count as letters. Characters are counted in the official name as published, spaces included. One word means no spaces, no hyphens and no dots.

Sources

- [INS, SIRUTA registry H1 2026 (the dataset)](https://data.gov.ro/dataset/721c9059-5f87-4c79-9854-a1d5c18f58d5)
- [INS, SIRUTA registry H1 2025 (cross-edition check)](https://data.gov.ro/dataset/fcba1a54-cffd-422c-b3ac-920f63564085)
- [Dataset licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)