Kiskunhalas ( hu, Kiskunhalasi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of

Bács-Kiskun County Bács-Kiskun ( hu, Bács-Kiskun megye, ) is a county (''megye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created as a result of World War II, merging the prewar Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. Wit ...

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Kiskunhalas Kiskunhalas (; german: Hallasch) is a city in the county of Bács-Kiskun, Hungary. Railroad The city is an important railway junction. It crosses the Budapest-Subotica-Belgrade railway line. The Kiskunfélegyháza railway ends in Kiskunhalas. ...

'' 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

Kiskunhalas District borders with

Kiskunmajsa District Kiskunmajsa ( hu, Kiskunmajsai járás) is a district in eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kiskunmajsa'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain S ...

to the northeast,

Mórahalom District Mórahalom ( hu, Mórahalmi járás) is a district in south-western part of Csongrád County. ''Mórahalom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. ...

''(

Csongrád County Csongrád ( ro, Ciongrad; tr, Conğrad sr, Чонград, Čongrad, archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd'') is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the ...

)'' to the east, the

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n district of North Bačka and

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,

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

to the west,

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. Geo ...

to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Kiskunhalas District is 9.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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and 7 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 43,849 and the

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was 53/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 1,800), German (500), Serb and Croat (100). Total population (2011 census): 43,849
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 41,062 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 ...

: 38,161 (92.94%) *

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 ...

: 1,774 (4.32%) *

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

: 479 (1.17%) *Others and indefinable: 648 (1.58%) Approx. 3,000 persons in Kiskunhalas 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 – 18,978 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 18,910;

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– 66); *

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– 3,565; *

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– 376; *other religions – 828; *

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 ...

– 8,023; *

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 ...

– 419; *''Undeclared'' – 11,660.

Gallery

File:Kiskunhalas városháza.JPG,

, Town Hall File:Kastély Kisszállás.jpg, Boncompagni Mansion in Kisszállás File:Kun-Fehér-tó naplementében.jpg, Lake in Kunfehértó File:Kelebia, Hungary.JPG, View of

Kelebia Kelebia is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. The railway crossing into the Serbian province of Vojvodina is located here. Croats in Hungary call this village ''Kelebija''. Živko Ma ...

References

External links

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