Kőszeg ( hu, Kőszegi járás) is a district in north-western part of Vas County. ''

Kőszeg Kőszeg (german: Güns, ; Slovak: ''Kysak'', sl, Kiseg, hr, Kiseg) is a town in Vas County, Hungary. The town is famous for its historical character. History The origins of the only free royal town in the historical garrison county of Vas ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.

Geography

Kőszeg District borders with

Sopron District Sopron ( hu, Soproni járás; german: Kreis Ödenburg) is a district in western part of Győr-Moson-Sopron County. ''Sopron'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statis ...

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Győr-Moson-Sopron County Győr-Moson-Sopron ( hu, Győr-Moson-Sopron megye, ; german: Komitat Raab-Wieselburg-Ödenburg; sk, Rábsko-mošonsko-šopronská župa) is an administrative county (comitatus or '' megye'') in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia ( ...

)'' to the northeast,

Sárvár District Sárvár ( hu, Sárvári járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Vas County. ''Sárvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography ...

to the east,

Szombathely District Szombathely ( hu, Szombathelyi járás) is a district in central-western part of Vas County. ''Szombathely'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. ...

to the south, the

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to the west and north. The number of the inhabited places in Kőszeg District is 21.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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and 18 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 25,090 and the

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was 88/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Croat and German (approx. 1,100) and Roma (200). Total population (2011 census): 25,090
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 23,694 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 ...

: 21,052 (88.85%) *

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 recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, ...

: 1,108 (4.68%) *

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

: 1,062 (4.48%) *Others and indefinable: 472 (1.99%) Approx. 1,500 persons in Kőszeg 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 – 14,300 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 14,275;

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– 23); *

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 ...

– 1,722; * Reformed – 424; *other religions – 214; *

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 ...

– 1,365; * Atheism – 175; *''Undeclared'' – 6,890.

References

External links

Postal codes of the Kőszeg District
{{authority control Districts in Vas County