Dolj County (Romanian pronunciation: [dolʒ] ⓘ; originally meant Dol(no)-Jiu, "lower Jiu", as opposed to Gorj (upper Jiu))[citation needed] is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova.

The entire area is a plain with the Danube on the south forming a wide valley crossed by the Jiu River in the middle.

The county's main industries: There are two small ports on the shore of the Danube river – Bechet and Calafat.

[7] From the religious point of view, the population was 98.4% Eastern Orthodox, 0.7% Roman Catholic, 0.5% Jewish, as well as other minorities.

In 1930, the county's urban population was 91,788 inhabitants, comprising 90.2% Romanians, 2.4% Jews, 2.2% Romanies, 1.7% Germans, 1.3% Hungarians, as well as other minorities.