Kunszentmiklós ( hu, Kunszentmiklósi járás) is a district in north-western 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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Kunszentmiklós Kunszentmiklós (german: Sankt Niklas) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. The name is derived from the Cumans (Kun in Hungarian). Twin cities * Cristuru Secuiesc * Blumberg * Skorenovac * Karcag * St. Julian's * Chepa See a ...

'' 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

Kunszentmiklós District borders with

Ráckeve District Ráckeve ( hu, Ráckevei járás) is a district in southern part of Pest County. ''Ráckeve'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Ráckeve ...

''( Pest County)'' to the north, Dabas District ''(Pest County)'' to the northeast,

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 Statistical Region. G ...

to the east,

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 ...

and

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 south,

Paks District Paks ( hu, Paksi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Tolna County. ''Paks'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Paks Distr ...

''(

Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the ...

)'' and

Dunaújváros District Dunaújváros ( hu, Dunaújvárosi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Fejér County. ''Dunaújváros'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Regi ...

''(

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 V ...

)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kunszentmiklós District is 9.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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and 6 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 29,998 and the

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was 39/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 900), Slovak (550) and German (150). Total population (2011 census): 29,998
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 28,732 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 ...

: 26,822 (93.35%) *

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 ...

: 883 (3.07%) *

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 ...

: 555 (1.93%) *Others and indefinable: 472 (1.64%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Kunszentmiklós 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 – 9,401 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 9,357;

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– 43); *

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– 8,306; *

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– 656; *other religions – 799; *

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 ...

– 4,363; *

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 ...

– 186; *''Undeclared'' – 6,287.

Gallery

File:Városháza Kunszentmiklóson.jpg,

, Town Hall File:Tassi zsilip.jpg, Sluice near

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File:Szabadszállás légifotó2.jpg, Aerial view of

Szabadszállás Szabadszállás is a small town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary, 80 kilometres south of Budapest by rail. The town is surrounded by several areas of the Kiskunság National Park. Twin cities * Schönenberg-Kübelberg Schönenberg-Kübelberg is ...

File:Kislak helye Dunavecsén.jpg,

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Memorial and Reformed Church in

Dunavecse Dunavecse is a town and municipality in Bács-Kiskun County in southern Hungary. Croats The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a re ...

References

External links

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