The map shows the Jewish population per county in the territory of Greater Romania, according to the census of 1930.The counties of Cernauti, Iasi and Lapusna had the largest communities, counting over 40,000 Jews each.
N.B.: (1) Cernauti: or Chernovitz, Chernivtsi, main county in Northern Bukovina, with capital bearing the same name, today in Ukraine; (2) Iasi: most important county in the Romanian historical region of Moldavia, with capital bearing the same name; (3) Lapusna: county in Bessarabia, with Chisinau (Kishinev) as capital, today the capital of the independent Republic of Moldova.
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