Balc

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Balc

Total population

1,359

Elevation151 m

Coordinates47.30°, 22.54°

Demographic figures from INS Romania. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Balc is a commune located in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Almașu Mare (Kozmaalmás), Almașu Mic (Szóvárhegy), Balc, Ghida (Berettyódéda), and Săldăbagiu de Barcău (Szoldobágy).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Eva Mozes Kor

Holocaust survivor (1934–2019)

István Borzási

G

Géza Leiher

I

István Nits

F

Ferenc Oláh

D

Dorin N. Poenaru

physicist

J

József Tunyogi Csapó

Hungarian legal scholar, law professor and full professor (1790–1865)

V

Vilmos Tibor Meleg

Hungarian actor from Romania (born: 1956)

O

Ovidiu Drimba

Romanian philologist (1919-2015)

K

Károly Virág

E

Emil Lobonțiu

Romanian politician

J

József Nemecz

Hungarian drafter and political activist (1890-1920)

J

József Bagosi

Hungarian cultural anthropologist, ethnographer (1959)

Miriam Mozes Zeiger

Romanian-born Holocaust survivor (1934-1993)

F

Florica Silaghi

Romanian rower

A

Arpad Klein

holocaust victim, b. 1906-05-31

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bihor

• Almașu Mic
  1.7 mi away · pop. 552
• Suplacu de Barcău
  2.9 mi away · pop. 2,791
• Ghida
  4 mi away · pop. 203
• Satu Barbă
  4.2 mi away · pop. 289
• Dijir
  4.8 mi away · pop. 371
• Foglaș
  4.8 mi away · pop. 221
• Suiug
  5 mi away · pop. 544
• Huta
  5.2 mi away · pop. 29
• Margine
  5.3 mi away · pop. 640
• Vâlcelele
  5.3 mi away · pop. 266
• Borumlaca
  6.3 mi away · pop. 962
• Cohani
  6.4 mi away · pop. 154

Browse all places in Bihor →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

lacquered bracket

Ganoderma lucidum

Seen 2026-07-26

Pink Stonecrop

Sedum cepaea

Seen 2026-06-20

Grass Vetchling

Lathyrus nissolia

Seen 2026-06-20

rattail sixweeks grass

Festuca myuros

Seen 2026-06-20

Common Cudweed

Filago germanica

Seen 2026-06-20

Dotted Loosestrife

Lysimachia punctata

Seen 2026-06-20

Green Russula

Russula virescens

Seen 2026-06-12

Domestic × European Wildcat

Felis catus × silvestris

Seen 2026-05-09

red deadnettle

Lamium purpureum

Seen 2026-04-10

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).