Heves ( hu, Hevesi 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-S ...

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Heves Heves is a small town in eastern Hungary. About 100 km east of Budapest, Heves lies at the northern extreme of the Great Hungarian Plain, just south of the Mátra and Bükk hills and west of the Tisza River. Heves gave its name to the 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 District borders with

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 ...

to the northeast,

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

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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 southeast,

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

''(Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County)'' 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 northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Heves District is 17.

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

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 35,036 and the

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was 50/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx. 5,500). Total population (2011 census): 35,036
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 35,799 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 ...

: 30,343 (84.76%) *

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 ...

: 5,182 (14.48%) *Others and indefinable: 274 (0.77%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Heves District did declare more than one 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 – 19,112 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 19,045;

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– 64); *

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 ...

– 1,932; *

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 ...

– 66; *other religions – 454; *

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 ...

– 5,095; *

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 ...

– 158; *''Undeclared'' – 8,219.

Gallery

File:Heves1.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:Kömlő, templom, légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of Kömlő File:Kisköre.jpg,

Tisza Dam The Tisza Dam, also known as the Kisköre Dam is a gravity dam on the Tisza River near Kisköre in Heves (county), Heves county, Hungary. It is the tallest dam in the country and also creates the largest reservoir in the country, Lake Tisza. It is ...

Kisköre Kisköre is a town in Heves County, 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, Ukraine to the northeast, Rom ...

File:Boconád.jpg, Szeleczky Mansion in Boconád

References

External links

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