Regiunea Baia Mare was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania

Communist Romania

Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...

, copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation.

History

The capital of the region was Baia Mare

Baia Mare

Baia Mare is a municipality in northwestern Romania and the capital of Maramureş County. The city is situated about 600 kilometres from Bucharest, the capital of Romania, 70 kilometres from the border with Hungary and 50 kilometres from the border with Ukraine...

, and its territory comprised an area similar to the nowadays Maramureş

Maramures County

Maramureș is a county of Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare.- History :* The 10th century frontier county of Borsova was founded by Stephen I of Hungary. Since then Máramaros served as the north-eastern border of the Hungarian Kingdom until 1920, the Trianon Peace...

 and Satu Mare

Satu Mare County

Satu Mare County is a county of Romania. The capital city is Satu Mare. Besides Romanians , Satu Mare features a significant ethnic minority of Hungarians .-Demographics:...

 counties. In 1952 raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

 Vişeu was attached to the Baia Mare region from Rodna region, after the dissolution of the latter. In 1960 the name of the region was changed to Maramureş.

Neighbors

Baia Mare region had as neighbors:

• 1950–1952: East: Rodna region; South: Cluj
  Regiunea Cluj
  Regiunea Cluj was one of the newly established administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, set after the soviet style.-History:...
  
   and Bihor
  Regiunea Bihor
  Regiunea Bihor was one of the newly established administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation.-History:...
  
   regions; West: Hungarian People's Republic; North: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
• 1952–1968: East: Suceava region; South: Cluj
  Regiunea Cluj
  Regiunea Cluj was one of the newly established administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, set after the soviet style.-History:...
  
   and Oradea
  Regiunea Bihor
  Regiunea Bihor was one of the newly established administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation.-History:...
  
   regions; West: Hungarian People's Republic; North: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Rayons

• 1950–1952: Baia Mare, Satu Mare, Sighet, Oaş, Carei, Cehu Silvaniei, Lăpuş.
• 1952–1968: Baia Mare, Satu Mare, Sighet, Oaş, Carei, Cehu Silvaniei, Lăpuş, Vişeu.