Cehal (, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune situated in

Satu Mare County Satu Mare County (, , ) is a county (Counties of Romania, județ) of Romania, on the border with Hungary and Ukraine. The capital city is Satu Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as ''Szatmár megye'', in German language, Ge ...

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. It is composed of three villages: Cehal, Cehăluț (the commune center; ''Magyarcsaholy''), and Orbău (''Tasnádorbó'').

Demographics

At the 2011 census the commune had 1,594 inhabitants, of which 66.4% were

Romanians Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, ...

and 33.3%

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an Ethnicity, ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common Culture of Hungary, culture, Hungarian language, language and History of Hungary, history. They also have a notable presence in former pa ...

. At the 2021 census Cehal had a population of 1,279; of those, 62% were Romanians and 32% Hungarians.

Natives

* Zoltán Sztáray (1918–2011), writer

References

Communes in Satu Mare County Localities in Crișana {{SatuMare-geo-stub