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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 District borders with
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to the north, Vecsés District and Monor District to the east, Dabas District to the south, Szigetszentmiklós District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Gyál District is 4.


Municipalities

The district has 2 towns, 1 large village and 1 village. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.


Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 40,853 and the
population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...
was 239/km².


Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 550), Romanian (350) and German (250). Total population (2011 census): 40,853
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 36,291 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 ...
: 34,631 (95.43%) *
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 ...
: 549 (1.51%) *Others and indefinable: 1,111 (3.06%) Approx. 3,500 persons in Gyál 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,

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*Catholic – 11,869 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 11,425;
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 ...
– 442); * Reformed – 6,383; *
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 ...
– 291; *other religions – 1,251; *
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 ...
– 7,626; * Atheism – 573; *''Undeclared'' – 12,860.


Gallery

File:Gyál városközpont.jpg, Downtown of Gyál File:Alsónémedi2.jpg, Aerial view of Alsónémedi File:Premontrei kolostor és tájház légi fotón.jpg, Monastery of
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File:Gyál1.jpg, Aerial view of Gyál


See also

*
List of cities and towns in Hungary Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages ...


References


External links


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