Administrative boundaries are an essential tool for any geo-spatial analysis. For Romania, there are national administrative boundaries and names which are compatible with the NUTS system. In addition, there are higher fragmentation units based on Census data.

NUTS

NUTS Products are available at Levels 1-to-5 for Romania National, as follows:

	RO-NUTS-1	1	Whole country	~	22,000,000	inhabitants / polygon
	RO-NUTS-2	8	Planning regions	~	2,750,000	inhabitants / polygon
	RO-NUTS-3	42	Counties	~	520,000	inhabitants / polygon
	RO-NUTS-4		Romania does not have a category equivalent to NUTS-4
	RO-NUTS-5	2,978	Communes	~	7,500	inhabitants / polygon
	There is a further set of boundary polygons available for Romania:
	RO-NUTS-5+	13,741	Settlements	~	1,600	inhabitants / polygon*
	Note:  The polygons in this product represent the extent of the built area.

NUTS boundaries for Romania are derived from, and are compatible with Geo Strategies' vector products for the whole country. RO-NUTS products can be combined with any of the other geo-spatial products available for Romania: RO-Top, RO-Road, RO-Street, RO-Pop, RO-PostMap, RO-Lifestyle, RO-Specialist - depending on the application.

Postcodes

Postcode mapping is widely used for business analysis. This is a key instrument for mapping and analysing customers, the commercial environment and suppliers in terms of their spatial relationships. It also has major implications for lifestyle analysis in terms of wealth, education, health and other aspects of the environment.

One can produce thematically shaded maps, or simply search within boundaries to identify spatial trends in business and consumer demographics, marketing response rates, sales territories, school catchments and similar.

Postcode products for Romania (RO-PostMap) developed by Geo Strategies cover both National and Street level.  In all, there are 51,442 postcodes:

	National	13,741
	Bucharest	12,242
	Other urban	25,459

The Geo Strategies postcode boundary products are as follows:

	RO-PostMap-1	10	~	2,200,000	inhabitants / polygon
	RO-PostMap-Counties	42	~	520,000	inhabitants / polygon
	RO-PostMap-Bucharest	12,242	~	150	inhabitants / polygon
	RO-PostMap-Urban*	25,459	~	240	inhabitants / polygon
	RO-PostMap-Settlements	13,741	~	1,600	inhabitants / polygon

There are two types of PostMap products available for Romania: Centroids and Boundaries. In turn, the Boundary products are available at two different resolutions: High Resolution and Low Resolution. High Resolution boundaries are for the most demanding of applications. Low Resolution boundaries are intended for use with thematic mapping, the creation of large territories (e.g. Sales territories), or other applications where positional accuracy is less important. 

Both postcode centroids and boundaries can be used for geocoding specialist thematic data.

All PostMap products for Romania are derived from, and are compatible with Geo Strategies' vector products for the country. RO-PostMap products can be combined with any of the other geo-spatial products for Romania: RO-Top, RO-Road, RO-Street, RO-Pop, RO-NUTS, RO-Lifestyle, RO-Specialist - depending on the application.

As postal information is continuously changing, RO-PostMap products are scheduled for regular updates throughout the year.

Census

Census boundary products are available for Bucharest.

Census boundaries are compatible with all other Geo Strategies vector products for Romania.

Address

Address ranging information is available as a point-file, or as a database linked to the street level data for Bucharest (RO-Street-Bucharest).

Address Ranging is available for the towns and cities listed below:

The product code for street plans for each city is as follows:

We can assign coordinates (geo-code) to each record in your own data on request - see Data Services.

For further information, please contact Geo Strategies at:
	Geo Strategies Ltd			Geo Strategies SA
	St John's Innovation Centre			Str G-ral V. Milea, 10A
	Cowley Road			Sibiu 550331
	Cambridge  CB4 0WS			Romania
	United Kingdom
	Tel:	+44 (0)1223 205080		Tel:	+40 (0)269 210832
	Fax:	+44 (0)1223 205081		Fax:	+40 (0)269 211165
	Email:	maps@geo-strategies.com		Email:	maps@geo.strategies.ro