Kaposvár ( hu, Kaposvári járás) is a district in the central-eastern part of
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 ...
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Kaposvár
Kaposvár (; also known by other alternative names) is a city with county rights in the southwestern part of Hungary, south of Lake Balaton. It is one of the leading cities of Transdanubia, the capital of Somogy County, and the seat of the Kaposvá ...
'' is also the name of the town where the district and county seat is found. The district is located in the
Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Kaposvár District borders with
Fonyód District
Fonyód ( hu, Fonyódi járás) is a district in northern part of Somogy County. ''Fonyód'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Fonyà ...
and
Tab District
Tab ( hu, Tabi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Somogy County. '' Tab'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Tab Distric ...
to the north,
Dombóvár District
Dombóvár ( hu, Dombóvári járás) is a district in south-western part of Tolna County. ''Dombóvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geo ...
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Tolna County
Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), 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 ...
)'' and
Hegyhát District
Hegyhát ( hu, Hegyháti járás) is a district in northern part of Baranya County. 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 se ...
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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 11 ...
)'' to the east,
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. ...
''(Baranya County)'' and
Barcs District
Barcs ( hu, Barcsi járás) is a district in southern part of Somogy County. ''Barcs'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Barcs Dis ...
to the south,
Nagyatád District
Nagyatád ( hu, Nagyatádi járás) is a district in central-southern part of Somogy County. ''Nagyatád'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia, Southern Transdanubia St ...
and
Marcali District
Marcali ( hu, Marcali járás) is a district in north-western part of Somogy County. ''Marcali'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia, Southern Transdanubia Statistical ...
to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kaposvár District is 78.
Municipalities
The district has 1
urban county, 3
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 74 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)
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 Kaposvár District
Districts in Somogy County
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