Located in the south of the country, on the lower course of the river that gave it its name, Olt county belongs to the category of counties bordering the Danube river. It is crossed by the 24 degrees east longitude on the line of Iancu Jianu Baldovinesti and 44 degrees north latitude in the south on the Vlãdila Scãrisoara line, measuring 138 km in the north-south direction and 78 km in the east-west direction.  As a historical-geographic position, it is part of the old Oltenia and Muntenia Historical Provinces, having a permanent connection with the West, with Banat on the Danube Valley, with Transylvania on the Olt Valley, and through the Danube port Corabia has an exit to the Black Sea. To the north it borders Vâlcea County, in the east with Arges and Teleorman County, to the west with Dolj County. In the southern part, on a length of 47 km, Danube makes the border of Bulgaria with Bulgaria. Olt County has an area of ​​5,498 Kmp (valid on 31.12.1997 according to the Romanian Statistical Yearbook -1998). The relief forms of the Olt county belong to the two large units, namely the Getic Plateau in the north, which occupies one third of the surface and the Romanian Plain in the South, which has two thirds.  Valley of the Danube, oriented east-west, dominates the Romanian bank and has large terraces. The Olt Valley represents a real axis of the territory of the county. The Olt terraces are marked by larger stretches on the right side of the valley, starting from the northern county to the Danube and up to Drăgănesti on the left where the high terraces are developed: Coteana 80-90 m and Slatina 50-60 m. The climate of the Olt county is temperate-continental, wetter in the north and arid in the south. The territory of the Olt county is crossed by two large water courses: the Danube River and the Olt River. The Danube River flows through the county on a length of 47 km. The Olt crossed the county to which it gave its name for a length of 100 km in the north-south direction.