Békéscsaba ( hu, Békéscsabai járás) is a district in central-southern part of Békés County. '' Békéscsaba'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography

Békéscsaba District borders with Békés District to the north,

Sarkad District Sarkad ( hu, Sarkadi járás; ro, Districtul Șercad) is a district in north-eastern part of Békés County. Sarkad, Hungary, Sarkad is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain ...

and Gyula District to the east,

Mezőkovácsháza District Mezőkovácsháza ( hu, Mezőkovácsházai járás) is a district in southern part of Békés County. ''Mezőkovácsháza'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statisti ...

to the south, Orosháza District and

Szarvas District Szarvas ( hu, Szarvasi járás; sk, Sarvašský okres) is a district in western part of Békés County. '' Szarvas'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Re ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Békéscsaba District is 9.

Municipalities

The district has 1 urban county, 2

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, 1 large village and 5 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 83,541 and the

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was 131/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Slovak (approx. 3,500), Roma (900), Romanian (500) and German (450). Total population (2011 census): 83,541
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 78,408 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 ...

: 72,018 (91.85%) *

Slovaks The Slovaks ( sk, Slováci, singular: ''Slovák'', feminine: ''Slovenka'', plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak. In Slovakia, 4.4 mi ...

: 3,504 (4.47%) * Gypsies: 916 (1.17%) *Others and indefinable: 1,970 (2.51%) Approx. 5,000 persons in Békéscsaba 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 – 17,821 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 17,627;

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– 184); *

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 ...

– 9,444; *

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– 6,031; *

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-pag ...

– 149; *other religions – 1,404; * Non-religious – 26,364; *

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 ...

– 1,289; *''Undeclared'' – 21,039.

Gallery

File:Megyeszékhely - Békés megye - Békéscsaba.jpg, Békéscsaba, the ''district seat'' File:A Kettős-körös hídja Doboznál - panoramio.jpg, Bridge over Kettős-Körös near

Doboz Doboz is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Geography It covers an area of 54.47 km² and has a population of 4084 people (2015). Notable people *Mihály Mező Mihály Mező (born 1 Au ...

File:WinterLandscape Csorvás.JPG, Winter landscape near

Csorvás Csorvás ( ro, Ciorvaş) is a town in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Geography It covers an area of 90.18 km² and has a population of 4,871 people (2015). The town of Csorvás is situated in Bé ...

File:Wenckheim-kastély (2579. számú műemlék).jpg, Wenckheim Mansion in

Szabadkígyós Szabadkígyós is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovak ...

File:Andrássy út2.JPG, Downtown of Békéscsaba File:Békéscsaba városháza.JPG, Town Hall in Békéscsaba File:Élővíz-csatorna Békéscsaba.jpg, Élővíz Canal in Békéscsaba File:Békéscsaba, Jókai színház - 2013 (1).JPG, Jókai Theater (Békéscsaba)

References

External links

Postal codes of the Békéscsaba District
Districts in Békés County {{Bekes-geo-stub