Sighetu Marmației

Sighetu Marmației, called Sighet until 1960, is a city in Maramureș County near the Iza River, in northwestern Romania. It lies along the Tisa river on the border with Ukraine, across from the Ukrainian town of Solotvyno, and administers five villages: Iapa, Lazu Baciului, Șugău, Valea Cufundoasă and Valea Hotarului. At the 2021 census it had 32,793 inhabitants, down from 37,640 in 2011, about 71 percent of them Romanians and about 8 percent Hungarians. The area has been inhabited since the Hallstatt period; the city was first mentioned in 1326 and by 1352 it was a free royal town and the capital of Máramaros county. Its name derives from the Hungarian name Máramarossziget, which means island in Máramaros.