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Județ
A județ (, plural județe ) is an administrative division in Romania, and was also used from 1998 to 2003 in Moldova, before it returned to raions.
Județ translates into English as "jurisdiction", but is commonly rendered as county (the preferred term for that being comitat in Romanian).
There are 41 județe in Romania, divided into municipii (cities), orașe (towns) and comune (communes). Each județ has a capital or county town where local and national institutions are headquartered. The central government is represented by one prefect in every județ.