Gyula ( hu, Gyulai járás; ro, Districtul Jula) is a district in eastern part of

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 ...

. '' Gyula'' 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

Gyula District borders with

Sarkad District Sarkad ( hu, Sarkadi járás; ro, Districtul Șercad) is a district in north-eastern part of Békés County. Sarkad, Hungary, Sarkad is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain ...

to the north, the

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n county of Arad to the east and south,

Mezőkovácsháza District Mezőkovácsháza ( hu, Mezőkovácsházai járás) is a district in southern part of Békés County. ''Mezőkovácsháza'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain, Southern ...

to the southwest,

Békéscsaba District Békéscsaba ( hu, Békéscsabai járás) is a district in central-southern part of Békés County. ''Békéscsaba'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain, Southern Great ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Gyula District is 4.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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 ...

, 1 large village and 1 village. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 41,627 and the

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was 101/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Romanian (approx. 2,500), German (1,250), Roma (1,000) and Slovak (150). Total population (2011 census): 41,627
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 39,664 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 ...

: 34,700 (87.48%) *

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Culture of Romania, Romanian culture and Cultural heritage, ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they l ...

: 2,382 (6.01%) *

Germans , native_name_lang = de , region1 = , pop1 = 72,650,269 , region2 = , pop2 = 534,000 , region3 = , pop3 = 157,000 3,322,405 , region4 = , pop4 = ...

: 1,252 (3.16%) *

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 ...

: 808 (2.04%) *Others and indefinable: 522 (1.32%) Approx. 2,000 persons in Gyula 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 – 8,722 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 8,474;

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 ...

– 244); *

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 ...

– 6,191; *

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...

– 1,431; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...

– 625; *other religions – 1,183; *

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 ...

– 11,197; *

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 ...

– 571; *''Undeclared'' – 11,707.

Gallery

File:Kapus híd, Kossuth Lajos tér-Városház utca között, Gyula, Városrészlet.jpg, Gyula, the ''district seat'' File:Vasarhelyi-Breda-kastely01.jpg, Vásárhelyi-Bréda Mansion in

Lőkösháza Lőkösháza () is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of southeast Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 1804 (2015). An important railway line crosses the Hungarian-Romanian border here (t ...

File:Puszta bei Gyula ziehbrunnen.jpg, Landscape near Gyula File:Gyula Vár nappal.jpg, Gyula Castle

References

External links

Postal codes of the Gyula District
Districts in Békés County {{Bekes-geo-stub