Northern Dobruja

Northern Dobruja ( or simply ; , Severna Dobrudzha) is the part of Dobruja that is in Romania. It is between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea. To the south is Southern Dobruja, the Bulgarian part of Dobruja.

 Geography 
The territory of Northern Dobruja now forms the counties of Constanța and Tulcea. It has a total area of 15,570 km2 and a population of slightly under 900,000.2011 census results per county, cities and towns 

 Cities 

 Constanța
 Tulcea
 Medgidia
 Mangalia

 Rivers 

 Casimcea
 Slava
 Taița
 Telița

 Lakes 

 Crapina Lake
 Jijiei Lake
 Traian Lake
 Babadag Lake
 Razim Lake
 Zmeica Lake
 Sinoe Lake
 Tașaul Lake
 Techirghiol Lake

 Danube Delta 

The Danube Delta is made of many lakes. The most important ones are:

 Roșu
 Isac
 Gorgova
 Furtuna
 Ledeanca
 Tatanir
 Merhel
 Matița
 Uzlina
 Dranov
 Lumina
 Puiu
 Puiuleț

 Demographics 
Ethnic composition

The table below shows Romanian statistics throughout the years:
Ethnicity1878K. Karpat, : Correspondance Politique des Consuls. Turguie (Tulqa). 1 (1878) 280-821880G. Dănescu, Dobrogea (La Dobroudja). Étude de Géographie physique et ethnographique1899191319301Calculated from results of the 1930 census per county, taken from 1956Calculated from statistics for the counties of Tulcea and Constanța from 196619771992200220112011 census results per county, cities and towns All225,692139,671258,242380,430437,131593,659702,461863,3481,019,766971,643897,165Romanian46,504 (21%)43,671 (31%)118,919 (46%)216,425 (56.8%)282,844 (64.7%)514,331 (86.6%)622,996 (88.7%)784,934 (90.9%)926,608 (90.8%)883,620 (90.9%)751,250 (83.7%)Bulgarian30,177 (13,3%)24,915 (17%)38,439 (14%)51,149 (13.4%)42,070 (9.6%)749 (0.13%)524 (0.07%)415 (0.05%)311 (0.03%)135 (0.01%)58 (0.01%)Turkish48,783 (21,6%)18,624 (13%)12,146 (4%)20,092 (5.3%)21,748 (5%)11,994 (2%)16,209 (2.3%)21,666 (2.5%)27,685 (2.7%)27,580 (2.8%)22,500 (2.5%)Tatar71,146 (31,5%)29,476 (21%)28,670 (11%)21,350 (5.6%)15,546 (3.6%)20,239 (3.4%)21,939 (3.1%)22,875 (2.65%)24,185 (2.4%)23,409 (2.4%)19,720 (2.2%)Russian-Lipovan12,748 (5,6%)8,250 (6%)12,801 (5%)35,859 (9.4%)26,210 (6%)²29,944 (5%)30,509 (4.35%)24,098 (2.8%)26,154 (2.6%)21,623 (2.2%)13,910 (1.6%)Ruthenian 
(Ukrainian from 1956)455 (0.3%)13,680 (5%)33 (0.01%)7,025 (1.18%)5,154 (0.73%)2,639 (0.3%)4,101 (0.4%)1,465 (0.1%)1,177 (0.1%)Germans1,134 (0,5%)2,461 (1.7%)8,566 (3%)7,697 (2%)12,023 (2.75%)735 (0.12%)599 (0.09%)648 (0.08%)677 (0.07%)398 (0.04%)166 (0.02%)Greek3,480 (1,6%)4,015 (2.8%)8,445 (3%)9,999 (2.6%)7,743 (1.8%)1,399 (0.24%)908 (0.13%)635 (0.07%)1,230 (0.12%)2,270 (0.23%)1,447 (0.16%)Roma702 (0.5%)2,252 (0.87%)3,263 (0.9%)3,831 (0.88%)1,176 (0.2%)378 (0.05%)2,565 (0.3%)5,983 (0.59%)8,295 (0.85%)11,977 (1.3%)

 1According to the 1926–1938 Romanian administrative division (counties of Constanța and Tulcea), which excluded a part of today's Romania (chiefly the communes of Ostrov and Lipnița, now part of Constanța County) and included a part of today's Bulgaria (parts of General Toshevo and Krushari municipalities)
 2Only Russians. (Russians and Lipovans counted separately)

 Symbols 
link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stema_Dobrogei.png|thumb|125x125px|Coat of arms of Northern Dobruja
Northern Dobruja is represented by two dolphins in the coat of arms of Romania.

Starting with 2015, Romania observes Dobruja Day on November 14. This day is the day in 1878 when Northern Dobruja became part of the Kingdom of Romania after the Treaty of Berlin.

 References 

Category:Regions of Romania