Kiskőrös ( hu, Kiskőrösi járás) is a district in central 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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Kiskőrös Kiskőrös ( sk, Malý Kereš / Kiškereš, yi, קישקעריש ''Kishkerish'', german: Körösch, hr, Kireš) is a town in Bács-Kiskun, Hungary. Kiskőrös is situated between the Danube and Tisza rivers at around . Sándor Petőfi, the nati ...

'' 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

Kiskőrös District borders with

Kunszentmiklós District Kunszentmiklós ( hu, Kunszentmiklósi járás) is a district in north-western part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kunszentmiklós'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Stat ...

to the north,

Kecskemét District Kecskemét ( hu, Kecskeméti járás) is a district in northern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kecskemét'' 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 Sta ...

to the northeast,

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

and

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 east, Kiskunhalas District to the southeast,

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 south,

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 Statis ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kiskőrös District is 15.

Municipalities

The district has 4

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and 11 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 54,625 and the

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was 48/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 1,500), Roma (1,400), Slovak (1,200) and Romanian (400). Total population (2011 census): 54,625
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 54,640 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 ...

: 49,828 (91.19%) *

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: 1,524 (2.79%) *

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 ...

: 1,434 (2.62%) *

Slovaks The Slovaks ( sk, Slováci, singular: ''Slovák'', feminine: ''Slovenka'', plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak. In Slovakia, 4.4 mi ...

: 1,152 (2.11%) *Others and indefinable: 702 (1.28%) Approx. 20 persons in Kiskőrös 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 – 26,821 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 26,734;

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– 82); *

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 ...

– 8,789; *

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– 4,473; *other religions – 1,740; *

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 ...

– 3,716; *

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 ...

– 273; *''Undeclared'' – 8,813.

Gallery

File:Kiskőrös városháza.JPG,

, Town Hall File:Izsák3.jpg, Aerial view of Izsák File:Kecel légifotó.jpg, Pintér Works Military Historical Park in

Kecel Kecel is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, in southern Hungary. Croats in Hungary call this town ''Kecelj''. History The first documents mentioning Kecel date back to 1198. Like many other Hungarian towns, Kecel has lost its population during th ...

File:Csonkatorony.jpg, Maimed tower in

Soltszentimre Soltszentimre is a village in Bács-Kiskun County, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, wheth ...

References

External links

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