Fehérgyarmat ( hu, Fehérgyarmati járás) is a district in eastern part of

Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg ( hu, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megye, ) is an administrative county (Hungarian: ''megye'') in north-eastern Hungary, bordering Slovakia (Košice Region), Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast), and Romania ( Bihor and Satu Mare cou ...

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Fehérgyarmat Fehérgyarmat is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 8089 people (2015). Twin towns – sister cities Fehérgyarmat is twinn ...

'' 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 Szatmár historical and geographical region.

Geography

Fehérgyarmat District borders with Vásárosnamény District and the

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oblast of

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to the north,

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n county of

Satu Mare Satu Mare (; hu, Szatmárnémeti ; german: Sathmar; yi, סאטמאר or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the ...

to the east, Csenger District to the south,

Mátészalka District Mátészalka ( hu, Mátészalkai járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Mátészalka'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plai ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Fehérgyarmat District is 50.

Municipalities

The district has 1

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, 2 large villages and 47 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is city, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 37,259 and the

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was 53/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 4,500), Ukrainian, Romanian and German (150). Total population (2011 census): 37,259
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 38,367 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 ...

: 33,254 (86.67%) *

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 ...

: 4,578 (11.93%) *Others and indefinable: 535 (1.39%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Fehérgyarmat District did declare more than one 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 – 23,258; *Catholic – 4,798 (

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– 2,951;

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– 1,847); *

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– 327; *

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– 39; *other religions – 994; *

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 ...

– 1,935; *

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 ...

– 80; *''Undeclared'' – 5,828.

Gallery

File:Fehérgyarmat - Temple.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:Turul-Tiszaujlak.jpg, Turul Monument in

Tiszabecs Tiszabecs is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is located on the eastern edge of the county, next to the Ukrainian border, on the edge of the Satu Mare plain, on the left bank ...

File:Túristvándi légifotó.jpg, Watermill of

Túristvándi Túristvándi is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian ...

File:Kolcse.JPG, Wooden bell tower of Kölcse

References

External links

Postal codes of the Fehérgyarmat District
Districts in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub