Hegyhát ( hu, Hegyháti járás) is a district in northern part of
Baranya County
Baranya ( hu, Baranya megye, ) is a county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya region, which was a county (''comitatus'') in the Kingdom of Hungary dating back to the ...
. The district is located in the
Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. It is the only district in Hungarian countryside, which is not named after its district seat.
Geography
Hegyhát District borders with
Dombóvár District and
Tamási District ''(
Tolna County
Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borders ...
)'' to the north,
Bonyhád District ''(Tolna County)'' to the east,
Komló District to the southeast,
Pécs District
Pécs ( hu, Pécsi járás) is a district in central part of Baranya County, Hungary. ''Pécs'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
PÃ ...
and
Szentlőrinc District
Szentlőrinc ( hu, Szentlőrinci járás) is a district in central-western part of Baranya County, Hungary. ''Szentlőrinc
Szentlőrinc () is a town in Baranya county, Hungary.
Sport
The association football club Szentlőrinc SE, currently comp ...
to the south,
Szigetvár District
Szigetvár ( hu, Szigetvári járás) is a district in western part of Baranya County, Hungary. '' Szigetvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. ...
to the southwest,
Kaposvár District
Kaposvár ( hu, Kaposvári járás) is a district in the central-eastern part of Somogy County. ''Kaposvár'' is also the name of the town where the district and county seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistica ...
''(
Somogy County
Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.
Somogy County lies ...
)'' to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Hegyhát District is 25.
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 23 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)
A KSH 2012. évi helységnévkönyve
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The bolded municipalities are cities.
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 Hegyhát District
Districts in Baranya County
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