The county was located in the eastern part of Greater Romania, in the south of the historical region of Bessarabia.

The Coat of Arms featured a tree on the sinister and the fortress of Cetatea Albă on the dexter.

The area returned to Romanian administration as the Bessarabia Governorate following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1941.

A military administration was established and the region's Jewish population was either executed on the spot or deported to Transnistria, where further numbers were killed.

[3][4] The area of the county became part of the Ukrainian SSR and eventually of the independent Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.