Jánoshalma ( hu, Jánoshalmai járás) is a district in southern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''

Jánoshalma Jánoshalma () is a town in Bács-Kiskun county in southern Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the n ...

'' 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

Jánoshalma District borders with

Kiskőrös District Kiskőrös ( hu, Kiskőrösi járás) is a district in central part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Kiskőrös'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. G ...

to the north, Kiskunhalas District to the north and east,

Bácsalmás District Bácsalmás ( hu, Bácsalmási járás; german: Kreis Almasch) is a district in southern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Bácsalmás'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Pla ...

to the south,

Baja District Baja ( hu, Bajai járás; german: Kreis Baja) is a district in south-western part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Baja'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Regi ...

to the west,

Kalocsa District Kalocsa ( hu, Kalocsai járás; german: Kreis Kollotschau) is a district in western part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kalocsa'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Stati ...

to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Jánoshalma District is 5.

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 3 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 17,341 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 39/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 800) and German (150). Total population (2011 census): 17,341
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 16,200 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 ...

: 15,160 (93.58%) *

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 ...

: 767 (4.73%) *Others and indefinable: 273 (1.69%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Jánoshalma 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 – 11,378 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 11,360;

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– 15); * Reformed – 273; *

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 ...

– 42; *other religions – 247; *

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 ...

– 1,414; * Atheism – 80; *''Undeclared'' – 3,907.

Gallery

File:Jánoshalma városháza.JPG,

, Town Hall File:Melykut-20170811-szekelykapu.jpg, Park in Mélykút File:Felsőbácskai Műmalom.jpg, Historic Mill of Upper Bácska (Jánoshalma) File:Melykut-20170812-templomejszaka.jpg, St. Joachim Church in Mélykút

References

External links

Postal codes of the Jánoshalma District
Districts in Bács-Kiskun County {{Bacs-geo-stub