Berettyóújfalu ( hu, Berettyóújfalui járás) is a district in south-eastern part of

Hajdú-Bihar County Hajdú-Bihar ( hu, Hajdú-Bihar megye, ) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Jász-Nag ...

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Berettyóújfalu Berettyóújfalu is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in center of the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is 40 km south from Debrecen (the second largest city in Hungary), and about 35 km from Oradea (Romania). Berettyóúj ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of Bihar historical and geographical region.

Geography

Berettyóújfalu District borders with

Derecske District Derecske ( hu, Derecskei járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Hajdú-Bihar County. ''Derecske'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. G ...

to the north, the

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n county of Bihor to the east, Sarkad District ''(

Békés County Békés (, , ro, Județul Bichiș) is an administrative division (county or ''megye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The ...

)'' to the south,

Szeghalom District Szeghalom ( hu, Szeghalmi járás) is a district in northern part of Békés County. '' Szeghalom'' 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 ...

''(Békés County)'' and

Püspökladány District Püspökladány ( hu, Püspökladányi járás) is a district in south-western part of Hajdú-Bihar County. ''Püspökladány'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Stat ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Berettyóújfalu District is 25.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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, 2 large villages and 20 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 44,995 and the

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was 36/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 3,000), Romanian (1,000) and German (200). Total population (2011 census): 44,995
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 42,143 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 ...

: 38,009 (90.19%) *

Gypsies The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sign ...

: 2,694 (6.39%) *

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym '' Vlachs'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Romanian culture and ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2011 Romania ...

: 1,111 (2.64%) *Others and indefinable: 329 (0.78%) Approx. 3,000 persons in Berettyóújfalu 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,

' * Reformed Church in Hungary, Reformed – 19,399; *Catholic – 3,480 (

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– 2,996;

Greek Catholic The term Greek Catholic Church can refer to a number of Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine (Greek) liturgy, considered collectively or individually. The terms Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic church or Byzantine Catholic, Byzantine C ...

– 484); * Orthodox – 618; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...

– 86; *other religions – 675; *

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 ant ...

– 9,703; *

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 ...

– 262; *''Undeclared'' – 10,772.

Gallery

File:Berettyóújfalu, Bercsényi utca.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:V. Rhédey-kastély (5403. számú műemlék).jpg, Rédely Mansion in Zsáka File:Berettyóújfalu-12.jpg, Csonkatorony from above (Herpály) File:Biharkeresztes - Temple.jpg, Reformed Church in

Biharkeresztes Biharkeresztes is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The ar ...

References

External links

Postal codes of the Berettyóújfalu District
Districts in Hajdú-Bihar County Berettyóújfalu {{Hajdu-geo-stub