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Caracal, Olt County · municipality · 27,403 residents (2021 census)
First written mention
1634
The oldest surviving written mention of Caracal dates from 1634, 392 years ago.
Older than 25% 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
29°–37° N
In the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs still walked the Earth, the ground under Caracal lay at 29°–37° north, depending on the plate-tectonic model (the project compares three). Today it is at 44.1° N. It has moved 1,116–1,770 km since.
The latitude band then; today at 44.1° N.
Source: Plate models Müller 2019, Merdith 2021 and PALEOMAP; GeoNames localities (CC BY 4.0)
Mountains on the horizon
2,544 m
The highest summit in view from Caracal is Moldoveanu, 2,544 m high and 168 km away. In all, 75 summits above 1,000 m are in view, 41 of them above 2,000 m.
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
302 km
The sea is 302 km away in a straight line. Space begins 100 km straight up (the Kármán line), so from Caracal space is nearer than the sea.
53% of Romanians live within 302 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
1,628 km
Dig a straight tunnel through the centre of the Earth from Caracal and after about 12,740 km you come out in the South Pacific Ocean, at 44.1° S, 155.6° W. The nearest land from there is 1,628 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
Local seismic hazard
0.20 g
For the conventional scenario with a 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years, Table A.1 of RTC 18-2026, MDLPA's methodology for drawing up seismic-risk maps (in force from 11 October 2026), lists a peak ground acceleration (PGA) of 0.20 g for Caracal. This value describes seismic hazard at locality level; it does not assess the risk or safety of any particular building.
60% of Romanians live in localities where the table gives a higher PGA value; 13% live 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
5.3 km
The nearest noble residence on Romania's List of Historic Monuments is Conacul din Liiceni, in Liiceni, 5.3 km away (mijl. sec. XX). Within 25 km there are 9 residences; within 50 km there are 28 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
435 beds
Caracal has a hospital with inpatient beds: 435 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
43 km
The nearest of the 17 airports with passenger traffic is Craiova, 43 km away in a straight line. 578,701 passengers passed through it in 2025, 8th among the country's airports.
53% 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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