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81.0%
Roman Catholic
4.3%
Reformed
3.0%
Pentecostal
1.8%
Greek Catholic
0.7%
Baptist
0.6%
Seventh day Adventist
0.4%
Other
1.8%
Non Religious
0.2%
No data
6.2%
Main articles: Religion in Romania and Romanian Orthodox Church
Romania is a secular state and has no state religion. An overwhelming majority o
f the population identify themselves as Christians. At the country's 2011 census
, 81.0% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Romani
an Orthodox Church. Other denominations include Protestantism (6.2%),Roman Catho
licism (4.3%), and Greek Catholicism (0.8%). From the remaining population, 195,
569 people belong to other Christian denominations or have another religion, whi
ch includes 64,337 Muslims (mostly of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity) and 3,519 Jew
ish. Moreover, 39,660 people have no religion or are atheist, whilst the religio
n of the rest is unknown.[244]
The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church in full
communion with other Orthodox churches, with a Patriarch as its leader. It is t
he only Orthodox church using a Romance languageand the second largest in size a
fter the Russian Orthodox Church. Its jurisdiction covers the territory of Roman
ia, with dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Moldova, Serbia and Hungary, as
well as diaspora communities in Central and Western Europe, North America and O
ceania.
Urbanization[edit]
Main articles: List of cities and towns in Romania and Metropolitan Areas in Rom
ania
Although 54.0% of the population lived in 2011 in urban areas,[3] this percentag
e has been on the decline since 1996.[245] Counties with over urban population a
re Hunedoara, Braov andConstan a, while with less than a third are Dmbovi a (30.06%) a
nd Giurgiu and Teleorman.[3] Bucharest is the capital and the largest city in Ro
mania, with a population of over 1.8million in 2011. Its larger urban zone has a
population of almost 2.2million,[246] which are planned to be included into a met
ropolitan area up to 20 times the area of the city proper.[247][248][249] Anothe
r 19 cities have a population of over 100,000, with Cluj Napoca and Timioara of s
lightly more than 300,000 inhabitants, and Iai, Constan a, Craiova, Braov, Gala i and
Ploieti with over 200,000 inhabitants.[168] Metropolitan areas have been constitu
ted for most of these cities.