Füzesabony ( hu, Füzesabonyi járás) is a district in south-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 ...

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Füzesabony Füzesabony is a town in Heves County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to t ...

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

Geography

Füzesabony District borders with

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 north,

Mezőkövesd District Mezőkövesd ( hu, Mezőkövesdi járás) is a district in south-western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Mezőkövesd'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statist ...

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Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén ( hu, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye, ; sk, Boršodsko-abovsko-zemplínska) is an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye)'' in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the border with Slovakia ( K ...

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Tiszafüred District Tiszafüred ( hu, Tiszafüredi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Tiszafüred'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Stati ...

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Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok ( hu, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megye, ) is the name of an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye'') in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zempl ...

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Heves District Heves ( hu, Hevesi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Heves County. ''Heves'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Heves Distr ...

to the southwest,

Gyöngyös District Gyöngyös ( hu, Gyöngyösi járás) is a district in central-western part of Heves County. ''Gyöngyös'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. This dis ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Füzesabony District is 16.

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 ...

, 1 large village and 14 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is city, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 30,416 and the

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was 53/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 3,000), German (250) and Romanian (100). Total population (2011 census): 30,416
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 29,126 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 ...

: 25,815 (88.63%) *

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 ...

: 2,775 (9.53%) *Others and indefinable: 536 (1.84%) Approx. 1,500 persons in Füzesabony 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 – 15,809 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 15,694;

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 Ca ...

– 113); * Reformed – 1,539; *

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 ...

– 45; *other religions – 611; *

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 ...

– 3,711; * Atheism – 185; *''Undeclared'' – 8,516.

Gallery

File:A templom külső, északkeleti oldala.JPG,

, Pusztaszikszó Chapel File:Besenyőtelek.jpg, Aerial view of Besenyőtelek File:Tisza-tavi Ökocentrum külső.jpg,

Lake Tisza Lake Tisza ( hu, Tisza-tó), also known as Kisköre Reservoir (Hungarian: ''Kiskörei-víztározó''), is the largest artificial lake in Hungary. It is located at the southeastern edge of Heves county, next to counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Ha ...

EcoCentrum in

Poroszló Poroszló is a village in Heves County, Northern Hungary Region, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north ...

File:Catholic Church of Kál, Hungary.jpg, St. Peter and Paul Church in

Kál Kál is a large village in Heves County, Hungary. As of 2015, it has a population of 3,519, and 3,359 as of the 2021 estimate. History The earliest written record of the village dates back to 1331, and was already inhabited before the Hungarian ...

References

External links

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