Satu Mare is a city in Romania and the capital of Satu Mare County, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It had a population of 91,520 at the 2021 census.
The city lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania. It is first mentioned in the Gesta Hungarorum as castrum Zotmar, and its history goes back to the Middle Ages.
Today Satu Mare is an academic, cultural, industrial, and business centre in the Nord-Vest development region.