Odoreu (, ) 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 six villages: Berindan (''Berend''), Cucu, Eteni, Mărtinești (''Krasznaszentmárton''), Odoreu, and Vânătorești (''Gombáserdő''). The commune is located in the north-central part of the county, just east of the county seat,

Satu Mare Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania ...

. Since 2013, it belongs to the

Satu Mare metropolitan area The Satu Mare Metropolitan Area is a metropolitan area of Romania founded on April 26, 2013 around Satu Mare, the capital city of Satu Mare County. It has a population of 233,306 and, besides Satu Mare, it includes four cities and towns ( Carei, ...

. It is crossed by the

national road The National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, the road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was a main tran ...

, which connects the county seat to Apa. The Odoreu train station serves the CFR Main Line 400, which runs from

Brașov Brașov (, , ; , also ''Brasau''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrative centre) of Brașov County. According to the 2021 Romanian census, ...

to Satu Mare.

Demographics

At the 2002 census, the commune had a population of 4,855; of those, 69.33% were

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, 26.77%

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 ...

, and 3.46%

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.Romanian census data, 2002
retrieved on March 22, 2010 According to mother tongue, 69.45% spoke

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as their first language and 30.33% of the population spoke Hungarian. At the 2011 census, there were 4,946 inhabitants, including 65.77% Romanians, 23.21% Hungarians, and 7% Roma. At the 2021 census, Odoreu had a population of 5,569, of which 65.27% were Romanians, 18.24% Hungarians, and 6.03% Roma.

References

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