Timișoara is a multicultural city, being the home of 21 different ethnicities and 18 religions. It is home to almost half a million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, while the Timișoara–Arad conurbation concentrates more than 70% of the population of Timiș and Arad counties. With 319,279 inhabitants at the 2011 census, Timișoara was then the country's third most populous city, after Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. From 1848 to 1860 it was the capital of the Serbian Vojvodina and the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar. Located on the Bega River, Timișoara is considered the informal capital city of the historical Banat, which is nowadays broadly considered a subregion of Transylvania. Timișoara ( UK: / ˌ t ɪ m ɪ ˈ ʃ w ɑːr ə/, US: / ˌ t iː m iː-/, Romanian: ( listen) German: Temeswar, also Temeschwar or Temeschburg Hungarian: Temesvár Serbian: Темишвар, romanized: Temišvar see other names) is the capital city of Timiș County and the main economic, social and cultural center in western Romania.
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