Poiana Mare is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania with a population of 9,047 as of 2021. It is composed of three villages: Poiana Mare, Tunarii Noi, and Tunarii Vechi.
The commune is located at the southwestern extremity of Dolj County, southeast of Calafat, a port city on the Danube, and southwest of the county seat, Craiova.
Poiana Mare is crossed by the national road , which starts in the port town of Bechet, to the east, and ends in Calafat. The Poiana Mare train station serves the CFR Line 913, a -long railway that connects the commune to GolenÃÂi, a component village of Calafat.
At the 2021 census, the commune had 9,047 inhabitants; of those, 85.53% were Romanians and 4.23% Roma.