Tulcea: places, data and stories

The Empty House — 1 in 4 Dwellings Stands Empty

The 2021 Census counts 2.53 million unoccupied dwellings — 25.5% of the housing stock. In Mehedinți 36.3% are empty. County map, breakdown and why the rural empty stock does not solve city rents.

Danube Delta: ARBDD permits, Navrom Tulcea–Sulina timetables, 2026 fares

The Delta access permit (5/15/30 lei), car, boat, fishing and photo permits, plus Navrom timetables from Tulcea to Sulina, Sfântu Gheorghe and Mila 23.

The Growing Delta: Romania's Youngest Land

Five thousand years ago this was a Black Sea bay. Fly over the fan, in 3D, and see how the Danube filled it lobe by lobe: three arms, four lobes, old shorelines and a time machine showing the growth — and its braking after the Iron Gates dams. In Romanian and English.

Măcin Mountains: Romania's oldest mountains

Born some three hundred million years ago, before dinosaurs and before the Carpathians, 467 m today. Fly over the 3D relief, climb the eight peaks and rewind time: the Triassic sea, the Cretaceous sea, the emersion. In Romanian and English.

100 places in Romania you won't find anywhere else in the world

An interactive bilingual atlas of 100 singular places, natural anomalies, ice caves, archaic relics, and unique engineering in Romania with map and documented cards.

Birds of the Delta: Seasons, Species, and Ethics

See when 24 Delta birds migrate or nest, explore three suggested trips, and read the visitor guidelines. The guide has no current population estimates and cannot predict what you will see.

The Sulina arm: ten cuts and a lighthouse left far from the sea, 1856–1902

Sail the Sulina arm as it was before 1868, then watch the European Commission of the Danube cut ten bends and shorten it by 21.9 km, while the shore moved away from the old lighthouse.

Romanian villages left without a school, 2013–2026

Of 6,833 villages with a school on the Ministry of Education's 2013–14 list, 1,329 have none in 2025–26. A map of every village over 13 years, and why the official count of rural schools (−76%) does not mean as many schools closed.

How old is your town?

The median age of each of Romania’s 3,181 localities, computed from the registered population by single year of age (INS, POP107D), on a map with every real boundary. Search your locality, see how old it is against the country and the county, its age fingerprint in one hundred squares, its pyramid by sex and its path from 1992 to 2026. In 528 localities there are now more registered people aged 80 or over than children under 10; in 1992 there were 9.