Ózd ( hu, Ózdi járás) is a district in western part of

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén ( hu, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye, ; sk, Boršodsko-abovsko-zemplínska) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''megye)'' in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the bord ...

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Ózd Ózd () is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, from the county seat of Miskolc. Ózd is the second largest municipality in the county. History The area has been inhabited since ancient times. The village of Ózd was fir ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.

Geography

Ózd District borders with the

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n region of

Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica (, also known by other alternative names) is a middle-sized town in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mo ...

to the northwest,

Edelény District Edelény ( hu, Edelényi járás) is a district in northern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Edelény'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Ge ...

to the northeast,

Kazincbarcika District Kazincbarcika ( hu, Kazincbarcikai járás) is a district in north-western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Kazincbarcika'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Nort ...

to the east,

Bélapátfalva District Bélapátfalva ( hu, Bélapátfalvai járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Heves County. '' Bélapátfalva'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Reg ...

and

Pétervására District Pétervására ( hu, Pétervásárai járás) is a district created in 2013 in the north-western part of Heves County. ''Pétervására'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungar ...

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Heves County Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun-S ...

)'' to the south,

Salgótarján District Salgótarján ( hu, Salgótarjáni járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Nógrád County. ''Salgótarján'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region ...

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Nógrád County Nógrád ( hu, Nógrád megye, ; sk, Novohradská župa) is a counties of Hungary, county ( hu, megye) of Hungary. It sits on the northern edge of Hungary and borders Slovakia. Description Nógrád county lies in northern Hungary. It shares bor ...

)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Ózd District is 17.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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, 1 large village and 14 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 54,285 and the

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was 141/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 7,000) and German (200). Total population (2011 census): 54,285
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 54,404 persons: *

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Urali ...

: 47,043 (86.47%) *

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: 6,808 (12.51%) *Others and indefinable: 553 (1.02%) Approx. 150 persons in Ózd District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011,

' *Catholic – 25,396 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 24,485;

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– 909); *

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– 3,548; *

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– 305; *other religions – 1,435; *

Non-religious Irreligion or nonreligion is the absence or rejection of religion, or indifference to it. Irreligion takes many forms, ranging from the casual and unaware to full-fledged philosophies such as atheism and agnosticism, secular humanism and anti ...

– 9,949; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no d ...

– 459; *''Undeclared'' – 13,193.

Gallery

File:Ózd légifotó.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:Fúvógépház (11688. számú műemlék) 2.jpg, Blower Engine Room in Ózd Metallurgical Works File:150912 Farkaslyuk (98a).JPG, View of

Farkaslyuk Farkaslyuk is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the ...

File:Járdánháza templom 1.JPG, Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Járdánháza

References

External links

Postal codes of the Ózd District
Districts in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub