Kisbér ( hu, Kisbéri járás) is a district in south-western part of

Komárom-Esztergom County Komárom-Esztergom ( hu, Komárom-Esztergom megye, ; german: Komitat Komorn-Gran; sk, Komárňansko-ostrihomská župa) is an administrative Hungarian county in Central Transdanubia Region; its shares its northern border the Danube with Slova ...

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Kisbér Kisbér (german: Beer) is a town in northern Hungary, in Komárom-Esztergom county. It is the administrative centre of Kisbér District. The town was first mentioned in 1277. Royal Stud Kisber was home to the Imperial-Royal Stud where a Thoro ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region.

Geography

Kisbér District borders with

Komárom District Komárom ( hu, Komáromi járás) is a district in north-western part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Komárom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region ...

to the north, Oroszlány District to the east,

Mór District Mór ( hu, Móri járás) is a district in north-western part of Fejér County. ''Mór'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Mór Distr ...

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Fejér County Fejér ( hu, Fejér megye, ) is an administrative county ( comitatus or megye) in Central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube and nearly touches the eastern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties ...

)'' to the southeast,

Zirc District Zirc ( hu, Zirci járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Veszprém County. ''Zirc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Zirc D ...

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Veszprém County Veszprém ( hu, Veszprém megye, ; german: Komitat Wesprim (Weißbrunn)) is an administrative county (''megye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county. Veszprém county Veszprém county lies in western ...

)'' to the southwest, Pannonhalma District and Győr District ''(

Győr-Moson-Sopron County Győr-Moson-Sopron ( hu, Győr-Moson-Sopron megye, ; german: Komitat Raab-Wieselburg-Ödenburg; sk, Rábsko-mošonsko-šopronská župa) is an administrative county (comitatus or '' megye'') in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia ( ...

)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kisbér District is 17.

Settlements

The district has 1

town 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 17 villages, listed with population, as of 1 January 2013:

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 20,284 and the

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was 40/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 350) and German (200). Total population (2011 census): 20,284
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 18,120 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 ...

: 17,378 (95.91%) *

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 ...

: 353 (1.95%) *

Germans , native_name_lang = de , region1 = , pop1 = 72,650,269 , region2 = , pop2 = 534,000 , region3 = , pop3 = 157,000 3,322,405 , region4 = , pop4 = ...

: 199 (1.10%) *Others and indefinable: 190 (1.05%) Approx. 2,000 persons in Kisbér 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 – 9,058 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 9,010;

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– 47); * Reformed – 3,145; *

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 ...

– 1,013; *other religions – 190; *

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 ...

– 1,649; * Atheism – 119; *''Undeclared'' – 5,110.

References

External links

Postal codes of the Kisbér District
Districts in Komárom-Esztergom County {{Komarom-geo-stub