Kistelek ( hu, Kisteleki járás) is a district in western part of

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) th ...

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Kistelek Kistelek is a town in Csongrád 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, whether it be a city ...

'' 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

Kistelek District borders with Kiskunfélegyháza District ''( Bács-Kiskun County)'' and Csongrád District to the north, Hódmezővásárhely District to the east,

Szeged District Szeged ( hu, Szegedi járás; sr, Сегедински округ, Segedinski okrug; german: Kreis Szegedin) is a district in southern part of Csongrád County. ''Szeged'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The distric ...

to the southeast,

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. ...

to the south, Kiskunmajsa District ''(Bács-Kiskun County)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kistelek District is 6.

Municipalities

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 5 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 18,185 and the

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was 44/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 500) and Romanian (200). Total population (2011 census): 18,185
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 16,842 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 ...

: 15,933 (94.60%) *

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 ...

: 475 (2.82%) *

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym '' Vlachs'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Romanian culture and ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2011 Roman ...

: 219 (1.30%) *Others and indefinable: 215 (1.28%) Approx. 1,500 persons in Kistelek 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 – 11,215 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 11,185;

Greek Catholic The term Greek Catholic Church can refer to a number of Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine (Greek) liturgy, considered collectively or individually. The terms Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic church or Byzantine Catholic, Byzantine Ca ...

– 30); * Reformed – 464; *

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 ...

– 52; *

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pa ...

– 31; *other religions – 153; *

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 ...

– 1,928; * Atheism – 142; *''Undeclared'' – 4,200.

Gallery

File:Kistelek.JPG,

, the ''district seat'' File:Ópusztaszer légi fotó.jpg, Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park File:Ópusztaszeri emlékpark, Árpádhalmi tanyasi iskola főépülete 2011-04-09.JPG, Rular school in Árpádhalom (

Pusztaszer Pusztaszer is a village in Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 1674 people (2002). Sightseeing A National Memorial Park has been established in the ne ...

) File:Pallavicini-kastély.jpg, Pallavicini Mansion in Ópusztaszer

References

External links

Postal codes of the Kistelek District
Districts in Csongrád-Csanád County {{Csongrad-geo-stub