Gyöngyös ( hu, Gyöngyösi járás) is a district in central-western 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 ...

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Gyöngyös Gyöngyös (; german: Gengeß) is a town in Heves county in Hungary, east of Budapest. Situated at the foot of the Sár-hegy and Mátra mountains, it is the home of numerous food production plants, including milk production and sausage factories ...

'' 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

Mátra Mountains The Mátra ( sk, Matra) is a mountain range in northern Hungary, between the towns Gyöngyös and Eger. The country's highest peak, Kékestető (1014 m), belongs to this mountain range. The Mátra is part of the North Hungarian Mountains an ...

geographical region.

Geography

Gyöngyös District borders with

Bátonyterenye District Bátonyterenye ( hu, Bátonyterenyei járás) is a district in eastern part of Nógrád County. ''Bátonyterenye'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Northern Hungary Stat ...

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Nógrád County Nógrád ( hu, Nógrád megye, ; sk, Novohradská župa) is a counties of Hungary, county ( hu, megye) of Hungary. It sits on the northern edge of Hungary and borders Slovakia. Description Nógrád county lies in northern Hungary. It shares bor ...

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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 Hungar ...

to the north,

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 ...

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

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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 east,

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

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

)'' to the south,

Hatvan District Hatvan ( hu, Hatvani járás) is a district in western part of Heves County. ''Hatvan'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Hatvan District ...

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Pásztó District Pásztó ( hu, Pásztói járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Nógrád County. ''Pásztó'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Northern Hungary Statistical Regi ...

''(Nógrád County)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Gyöngyös District is 24.

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 ...

and 22 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 73,834 and the

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was 98/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 4,000), Slovak (400), German (300) and Romanian (150). Total population (2011 census): 73,834
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 70,115 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 ...

: 65,039 (92.76%) *

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 ...

: 3,564 (5.08%) *Others and indefinable: 1,512 (2.16%) Approx. 3,500 persons in Gyöngyös 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 – 39,722 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 39,490;

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– 225); *

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 ...

– 2,675; *

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 ...

– 214; *other religions – 1,082; *

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 ...

– 10,725; *

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 ...

– 891; *''Undeclared'' – 18,525.

Gallery

File:Fountain with Grapes and Town Hall. Listed -1628. - Fő Sq., Gyöngyös,Hungary.JPG,

, Town Hall File:Szent Bertalan utca a Kossuth Lajos utca felé nézve. Fortepan 721.jpg, Gyöngyös 1938 File:Kékestető.JPG, View of

Kékes Kékes is Hungary's highest mountain, at above sea level. It lies northeast of Gyöngyös, in the Mátra range of Heves county. It is Hungary's third most popular tourist attraction, after Lake Balaton and the Danube, and has a number of ho ...

File:A háttérben a három falu temploma - panoramio.jpg, Ski resort in Mátraszentistván File:Gyönygyöspata vár.jpg, Castle Ruins of Gyöngyöspata File:Visonta légifotó.jpg, Mátra Power Plant near Visonta File:Eglise Szent Bertalan de Gyöngyös.jpg, Saint Bartholomew Church in Gyöngyös

References

External links

Postal codes of the Gyöngyös District
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