Romania — Regional Market index
The Romania regional market index lists the 13 Romanian markets that meet the co-location system's composition gates. Five of the 13 sit in Transylvania and reference Cluj-Napoca; the rest are distributed across Wallachia, Moldavia, and the Banat rather than clustering on a single metropolitan core.
Coverage
No rank or score is published for any market in this table. Every market below qualifies under the framework's Regional Market composition gate — a hypermarket anchor paired with at least two of {hardware, price club, lifestyle, electronics, sport} across the market's co-location clusters. Full methodology: Regional Markets Intelligence System.
The metropolitan reference point recorded for each market is the nearest major metropolitan centre in the framework's continental reference set — a straight-line (crow-flies) distance measurement, not a drive-time or commuting estimate. It is not a claim that the market functions as a commuter suburb of that centre. Every one of Romania's 13 reference points sits within Romania itself — Cluj-Napoca for five entries, Bucharest for four, and Timișoara and Brașov for two each. No Romanian market references a metropolitan centre across a border. Romania's median reference distance is 100 kilometres, and no market sits within 50 kilometres of its reference point — the second-highest minimum in the European set after Croatia.
Catchment population has not been computed for any of the 13 Romanian markets in the current dataset build — Romania is one of six European countries without this figure in the 2026-08-07 release, alongside Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. This is a disclosed gap in the underlying source data, stated plainly rather than presented as zero.
Cluster composition
The 13 markets carry 15 co-location clusters between them — 11 Tier 1, two Tier 2, and two Tier 3. Every Romanian market carries at least one Tier 1 cluster; none qualifies on Tier 3 clusters alone.
Markets
This table is a country-specific view of the continental Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe set.
Market names follow the dataset's own municipal records, with the Romanian administrative prefix Municipiul removed for readability.
| Market | Metropolitan reference | km | T1 | T2 | T3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arad | Timișoara | 50.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Blejoi | Bucharest | 60.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Târgovişte | Bucharest | 75.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Vima Mică | Cluj-Napoca | 75.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Târgu Mureş | Cluj-Napoca | 76.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Alba Iulia | Cluj-Napoca | 76.6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Buzău | Bucharest | 99.7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Şelimbăr | Brașov | 111.4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Focşani | Brașov | 125.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Satu Mare | Cluj-Napoca | 126.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Oradea | Cluj-Napoca | 133.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Târgu Jiu | Timișoara | 179.6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Craiova | Bucharest | 183.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
See also
- Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe — the continental European Top 400 table this page filters
- Regional Markets intelligence system — the co-location methodology and market selection criteria
Cite this record: /wiki/atlas-romania — revision 0174f5e5, last updated 6 September 2026.