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Sighișoara, Mureș County · municipality · 23,927 residents (2021 census)
First written mention
1280
The oldest surviving written mention of Sighișoara dates from 1280, 746 years ago.
Older than 94% of the 5,588 localities with a firm first mention.
Source: Wikidata (CC0), Suciu (1967–68), Documenta Romaniae Historica, Wikipedia; the date is the one the project picks
100 million years ago
25°–31° N
In the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs still walked the Earth, the ground under Sighișoara lay at 25°–31° north, depending on the plate-tectonic model (the project compares three). Today it is at 46.2° N. It has moved 1,968–2,321 km since.
The latitude band then; today at 46.2° N.
Source: Plate models Müller 2019, Merdith 2021 and PALEOMAP; GeoNames localities (CC BY 4.0)
Mountains on the horizon
1,801 m
The highest summit in view from Sighișoara is Harghita-Mădăraș, 1,801 m high and 66 km away. In all, 5 summits above 1,000 m are in view.
Against Moldoveanu, Romania's highest summit (2,544 m).
The calculation takes the terrain, the curvature of the Earth and the bending of light into account, out to 450 km, from 30 m above the ground (the roof of a ten-storey block).
Source: Terrain from Mapzen/AWS Terrain Tiles, summits from OpenStreetMap; the calculation is the project's
The sea or space
368 km
The sea is 368 km away in a straight line. Space begins 100 km straight up (the Kármán line), so from Sighișoara space is nearer than the sea.
67% of Romanians live within 368 km of the sea.
The distance starts from a point inside the commune or town.
Source: Natural Earth (public domain), GHSL 2025 population (JRC, CC BY 4.0)
Through the Earth, under your feet
1,646 km
Dig a straight tunnel through the centre of the Earth from Sighișoara and after about 12,740 km you come out in the South Pacific Ocean, at 46.2° S, 155.2° W. The nearest land from there is 1,646 km away: the Chatham Islands (New Zealand).
The tunnel passes through no other town: below you there is only rock, then the Earth's core.
Source: Natural Earth (public domain); ellipsoid geometry as in the project
The earthquake design value
0.16 g
Romania's new seismic design code (RTC 18-2026, in force from 11 October 2026) gives Sighișoara a peak ground acceleration of ag = 0.16 g, that is 16% of the acceleration of free fall. The value is exceeded on average once every 475 years.
76% of Romanians live in localities with a higher value and 3% in localities with the same value.
Source: MDLPA Order 1,037/2026, RTC 18-2026, Annex A, Table A.1 (Official Gazette 771 bis, 11 Sep 2026)
Castles and manor houses
6.9 km
The nearest noble residence on Romania's List of Historic Monuments is Castelul Bethlen din Țopa, in Țopa, 6.9 km away (sec. XVII). Within 25 km there are 9 residences; within 50 km there are 33 residences.
A conac is the manor house of a boyar or noble, a castle is fortified; a culă is an Oltenian tower house.
Source: List of Historic Monuments (National Heritage Institute), processed by the Castele project
The nearest hospital
273 beds
Sighișoara has a hospital with inpatient beds: 273 beds in 2024, public and private.
A straight line is not the road.
Source: INS: hospital beds (SAN102C, 2024) and population (POP107D, 2023); the calculation is the project's
The nearest airport
39 km
The nearest of the 17 airports with passenger traffic is Transilvania (Târgu Mureș), 39 km away in a straight line. 153,264 passengers passed through it in 2025, 12th among the country's airports.
48% of Romanians live closer to an airport.
Passengers are counted on landing and on take-off.
Source: Romanian Airports Association (2025 statistics), OurAirports (public domain); INS 2021 census population
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