Nadlak (German) – Nadlac (German) – Nagylak (Hungarian) – Nădlac, Romania (Official)
Arad County – Western Romania
Nădlac is a town in western Romania, Arad County. A former part of the town lies across the border with Hungary; this village is called Nagylak.
An international border town, Nădlac is the main border crossing into western Romania from Hungary. Nădlac is the main entrance gate from Western Europe.
Nădlac lies in western Romania, near the border with Hungary, in the east of the Great Hungarian Plain, on the north bank of the river Mures (Mures). The county capital Arad is located about 45 km to the east.
After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 Nădlac / Nagylak seat of a chair district in Hungarian Csanád County.
In the Treaty of Trianon Romania reached the possession of the city, which was inhabited at that time one third of Romanians.
Located in the west of the city train station with the railway line from Mezőhegyes after Apátfalva remained in Hungary; Nădlac was a border town.
Around the train station, the new village on the Hungarian side Nagylak , which forms a separate municipality today with about 600 inhabitants.
The main industries are agriculture, wood processing and the textile industry.
In the year 1880, 10,646 people lived in Nădlac, including 5,598 Slovaks, 3,293 Romanians , 820 Hungarians , 214 Serbs , 137 German and 25 Ukrainians.
In 1920 the population reached its peak with 13,988 and has since been on a downward trend.
As of the 2002 census, 8,144 inhabitants were in Nădlac registered, including 3,844 Slovaks, Romanians 3,696, 264 Hungarians, 218 Roma , 47 Ukrainians, 30 German, 15 Serbs and 12 Czechs.
Nădlac is also a centre of the Lutheran Slovakian community in Romania.
Last updated: 07/06/2025