Budakeszi ( hu, Budakeszi járás) is a district in western part of Pest County. ''

Budakeszi Budakeszi (german: Wudigess or ) is a town in Pest County, in the Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. It is located beyond the János Hill at the western city limits of Budapest, about west of the Zero Kilometre Stone in the city centre. A popul ...

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

Geography

Budakeszi District borders with

Pilisvörösvár District Pilisvörösvár ( hu, Pilisvörösvári járás; german: Kreis Werischwar) is a district in north-western part of Pest County. ''Pilisvörösvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Centr ...

to the north,

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

to the east,

Érd District Érd ( hu, Érdi járás) is a district in south-western part of Pest County. ''Érd'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Érd District bo ...

to the south,

Bicske District Bicske ( hu, Bicskei járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Fejér County. ''Bicske'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Bics ...

''(

Fejér County Fejér ( hu, Fejér megye, ) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in Central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube and nearly touches the eastern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties V ...

)'' to the west,

Tatabánya District Tatabánya ( hu, Tatabányai járás; german: Kreis Totiserkolonie) is a district in south-eastern part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Tatabánya'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Cent ...

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Komárom-Esztergom County Komárom-Esztergom ( hu, Komárom-Esztergom megye, ; german: Komitat Komorn-Gran; sk, Komárňansko-ostrihomská župa) is an administrative Hungarian county in Central Transdanubia Region; its shares its northern border the Danube with Slova ...

)'' to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Budakeszi District is 12.

Municipalities

The district has 4

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

, 1 large village and 7 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The municipalities in bold are cities, the municipality in ''italics'' is a large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 83,670 and the

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was 290/km².

Ethnicity

Besides Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 3,700), Roma and Romanian (400), Russian (250) and Slovak (150). Total population (2011 census): 83,670
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 79,752 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 ...

: 72,343 (90.71%) *

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: 3,702 (4.64%) *Others and indefinable: 3,707 (4.64%) Approx. 4,000 persons in Budakeszi District did not declare their 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 – 29,681 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 28,763;

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– 904); *

Reformed Reform is beneficial change Reform may also refer to: Media * ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang * Reform (band), a Swedish jazz fusion group * ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine *''Reforme'' ("Reforms"), initial name of the ...

– 9,708; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...

– 1,160; *

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pa ...

– 123; *

Judaism Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in the ...

– 164; *other religions – 1,934; *

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 ...

– 14,614; *

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 ...

– 2,060; *''Undeclared'' – 24,226.

Gallery

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File:Budaőrs - Kőhegy.jpg, Aerial view of

Budaörs Budaörs (; german: Wudersch; hr, Jerša, or ; la, Vicus Teuto) is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. Location A suburb of Budapest, the town lies among the Buda and Csiki hills and the Tétény plateau in the Buda� ...

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Zsámbék Premontre monastery church Zsámbék (german: Schambeck) is a town in Pest County, Hungary. Location Zsámbék is located 30 km west of Budapest along the M1 motorway in the Gerecse Mountains. Its neighbouring villages are Tök, Perbál, Páty, Herceghalom, Mány ...

File:Nagykovacsi from a nearby hill.jpg, Panorama of

Nagykovácsi Nagykovácsi (whose name in English translates as "Great Smithy") is a small town in the Pilisvörösvári kistérség district of Hungary situated some north-west of the centre of Budapest, in a valley, at an altitude of 340 metres. It is locate ...

References

External links

Postal codes of the Budakeszi District
Districts in Pest County {{Pest-geo-stub