Sectors of Bucharest


The Municipality of Bucharest is divided into 6 administrative units, named sectors, each of which has their own mayor and council, and has responsibility over local affairs, such as secondary streets, parks, schools and the cleaning services.
Each of the 6 sectors contains a number of informal districts which have no administrative function:
Initially, Bucharest was divided into plăși. In 1798, there were five of these: Târgul, Podul Mogoșoaiei, Târgul de afară, Broștenii and Gorganul. During the Russo-Turkish War, these were given the names of colors and called culori. Roșu, the smallest, composed of the commercial center and a narrow strip on the right bank of the Dâmbovița River, was disbanded at the beginning of the 20th century, its territory divided among the other four. After World War I, each of the four culori, also called sectoare by this time, was given its own mayor and council. At the beginning of Ion Antonescu's regime, the culori were briefly abolished but restored several months later.
In 1950, soon after the onset of the Communist regime, the culori were abolished and replaced by eight raions, each with its own local administration: Grivița Roșie, 30 Decembrie, 1 Mai, 23 August, Tudor Vladimirescu, Nicolae Bălcescu, V.I. Lenin and 16 Februarie. In 1968, the raions became sectors, their names replaced by cardinal numbers. In 1979, Sector VIII was merged into Sector I and Sector II into Sector 3, yielding the present six sectors.

List of sectors by area

RankSectorArea
1Sector 168
2Sector 638
3Sector 334
3Sector 434
5Sector 232
6Sector 530

List of sectors by population

RankSectorPopulation
1Sector 3385,439
2Sector 6367,760
3Sector 2345,370
4Sector 4287,828
5Sector 5271,575
6Sector 1225,454

List of sectors by population density

RankSectorPopulation density
1Sector 311,336
2Sector 210,793
3Sector 69,678
4Sector 59,053
5Sector 48,466
6Sector 13,340