Bélapátfalva ( hu, Bélapátfalvai járás) is a district in north-eastern part of

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 ...

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

Bükk Mountains The Bükk Mountains () are a section of the North Hungarian Mountains of the Inner Western Carpathians. Much of the area is included in the Bükk National Park. Geography Although Kékes, the highest point in Hungary, is not here but in the n ...

geographical region.

Geography

Bélapátfalva District borders with

Ózd District Ózd ( hu, Ózdi járás) is a district in western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Ózd'' 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 ...

and

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 ...

''(

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 ...

)'' to the north,

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

''(Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County)'' to the east,

Eger District Eger ( hu, Egri járás) is a district in eastern part of Heves County. ''Eger'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. This district lies between of Bükk ...

to the south,

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 Hung ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Bélapátfalva District is 8.

Municipalities

The district has 1

town 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 ...

and 7 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 8,978 and the

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was 50/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx. 500). Total population (2011 census): 8,978
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 8,209 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 ...

: 7,695 (93.74%) *

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 ...

: 421 (5.13%) *Others and indefinable: 93 (1.13%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Bélapátfalva 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 – 4,246 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 4,218;

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– 28); *

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 ...

– 1,274; *

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– 20; *other religions – 96; *

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 ...

– 1,081; *

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 ...

– 65; *''Undeclared'' – 2,196.

Gallery

File:Belapatfalva, Apatsagi templom.jpg, Bélapátfalva, the ''district seat'' File:Mónosbél - panoramio.jpg, Aerial view of Mónosbél File:Erdődy-Pallavicini kastély (5856. számú műemlék) 5.jpg, Erdődy-Pallavicini Mansion in

Szilvásvárad Szilvásvárad is a village in Heves County, Northern Hungary Region, Hungary. Sights to visit * Szalajka-valley * Fátyol-waterfall * Istállós-kő cave * Cserepes-kő-cave * Kalapat viewpoint * Virgin forest * Forest muse ...

File:Fátyol vízesés.jpg, Waterfall in Szalajka Valley

References

External links

Postal codes of the Bélapátfalva District
Districts in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub