Baraolt

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Downtown Mendoza.jpg Baraolt or Barót (Template:Lang-ro; Template:Lang-hu) is a town and administrative district in Covasna County, eastern Transylvania, Romania. The town was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1224. Five villages are administratively part of the town:

Biborţeni/Bibarcfalva
Bodoş/Bodos
Căpeni/Köpec
Micloşoara/Miklósvár
Racoşul de Sus/Felsőrákos

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Demographics

According to the 2002 Census, the population of Baraolt is 9,670 and has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority (9,271 (95.87%) Hungarians, 300 (3.1%) Romanians, 84 Roma, 15 others).

In Baraolt, the Hungarian language, spoken by the vast majority of locals, has co-official status alongside Romanian.

The town has one high school and a provincial hospital with 82 beds. The hospital's specialties include internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynaecology, and paediatrics; it also has an accident and emergency service.

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