Dabas ( hu, Dabasi járás) is a district in southern part of Pest County. '' Dabas'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region.

Geography

Dabas District borders with

Gyál District Gyál ( hu, Gyáli járás) is a district in central-southern part of Pest County. ''Gyál'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Gyál Dist ...

and

Monor District Monor ( hu, Monori járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Pest County. ''Monor'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary, Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geograp ...

to the north, Cegléd District to the east,

Kecskemét District Kecskemét ( hu, Kecskeméti járás) is a district in northern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kecskemét'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. G ...

and Kunszentmiklós District ''(

Bács-Kiskun County Bács-Kiskun ( hu, Bács-Kiskun megye, ) is a county (''megye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created as a result of World War II, merging the prewar Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. Wit ...

)'' to the south,

Ráckeve District Ráckeve ( hu, Ráckevei járás) is a district in southern part of Pest County. ''Ráckeve'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Ráckeve ...

and

Szigetszentmiklós District Szigetszentmiklós ( hu, Szigetszentmiklósi járás) is a district in south-western part of Pest County. ''Szigetszentmiklós'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statist ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Dabas District is 11.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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 ...

, 2 large villages and 6 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 48,289 and the

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was 79/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,100), German (1,400), Slovak (1,200) and Romanian (300). Total population (2011 census): 48,289
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 47,774 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 ...

: 42,305 (88.55%) * Gypsies: 2,103 (4.40%) *

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: 1,391 (2.91%) *

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 ...

: 1,219 (2.55%) * Others and indefinable: 756 (1.58%) Approx. 500 persons in Dabas 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 – 23,774 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 23,568;

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– 203); *

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– 4,579; *

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– 948; * other religions – 715; * Non-religious – 6,181; *

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 ...

– 426; * ''Undeclared'' – 11,668.

Gallery

File:Halász Móric-kúria (6982. számú műemlék) 2.jpg, Mansion of Móric Halász in Dabas File:Újhartyán Fő tér.jpg, Aerial view of

Újhartyán Újhartyán (german: Hartian) is a small town in Pest County, Hungary. Sights *There is a Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th cent ...

File:Örkény - Palace.jpg, Pálóczy-Horváth Mansion in Örkény File:Kakucs 2004, Szent Kereszt-templom.jpg, View of Kakucs

References

External links

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