Kunhegyes ( hu, Kunhegyesi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok ( hu, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megye, ) is the name of an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye'') in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zempl ...

. '' Kunhegyes'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of Nagykunság historical and geographical region.

Geography

Kunhegyes District borders with

Heves District Heves ( hu, Hevesi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Heves County. ''Heves'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Heves Distr ...

''(

Heves County Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun ...

)'' to the northwest,

Tiszafüred District Tiszafüred ( hu, Tiszafüredi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Tiszafüred'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Stati ...

to the northeast,

Karcag District Karcag ( hu, Karcagi járás) is a district in eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Hungary. ''Karcag'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. ...

to the east and south,

Törökszentmiklós District Törökszentmiklós ( hu, Törökszentmiklósi járás) is a district in central part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Törökszentmiklós'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern G ...

to the south,

Szolnok District Szolnok ( hu, Szolnoki járás) is a district in western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Szolnok'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geo ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kunhegyes District is 7.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 20,045 and the

population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

was 43/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx. 4,000). Total population (2011 census): 20,045
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 21,823 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 ...

: 18,049 (82.71%) *

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 ...

: 3,595 (16.47%) *Others and indefinable: 179 (0.82%) Approx. 2,000 persons in Kunhegyes 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 – 4,742 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 4,712;

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– 30); * Reformed – 4,010; *

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 ...

– 19; *other religions – 189; *

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 ...

– 7,496; * Atheism – 106; *''Undeclared'' – 3,483.

Transport

Road network

* Main road 34 (Hu) Otszogletu zold tabla

(N→S):

Tiszafüred... – Kunhegyes District (1 municipality: Kunhegyes) – ...Fegyvernek 4 (Hu) Otszogletu zold tabla

Railway network

* Line 102 (N→S): Kál-Kápolna (80, 84)... –Kunhegyes District (2 municipalities: Abádszalók, Kunhegyes) – ...Kisújszállás (100)

Gallery

File:Kunhegyes városháza.jpg, Kunhegyes, Town Hall File:Tiszaroff légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of

Tiszaroff Tiszaroff is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, in the Northern Great Plain Region of 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 b ...

File:Pusztataskony Szapáry Chapel.jpg, Szapáry Chapel in Tiszabura File:Tisza-tó.jpg, Lake Tisza

References

External links

Kunhegyes District - HunMix.huPostal codes of the Kunhegyes District
Districts in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Jasz-geo-stub