Körmend ( hu, Körmendi járás) is a district in south-western part of Vas County. ''

Körmend Körmend ( sl, Kermendin, Prekmurje Slovene: ''Karmadén,'' ger, Kirment) is a town in Vas county , Western Hungary. Places of interest The town is especially well known for its castle which used to belong to the Batthyány family, one of the mo ...

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

Geography

Körmend District borders with

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, Western Transdanubia St ...

to the north,

Vasvár District Vasvár ( hu, Vasvári járás) is a district in southern part of Vas County. ''Vasvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. ...

to the east, Zalaegerszeg District and Lenti District ''( Zala County)'' to the south,

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, Szentgotthárd District and the

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n state of Burgenland to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Körmend District is 46.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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and 44 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 27,177 and the

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was 44/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 300) and Roma (250). Total population (2011 census): 27,177
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 24,347 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 ...

: 23,538 (96.68%) *

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: 313 (1.29%) * Gypsies: 259 (1.06%) *Others and indefinable: 231 (0.95%) Approx. 3,000 persons in Körmend 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 – 15,792 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 15,766;

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– 21); *

Reformed Reform is beneficial change Reform may also refer to: Media * ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang * Reform (band), a Swedish jazz fusion group * ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine *''Reforme'' ("Reforms"), initial name of the ...

– 2,871; *

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 ...

– 1,447; *other religions – 210; * Non-religious – 1,091; *

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 ...

– 131; *''Undeclared'' – 5,635.

References

External links

Postal codes of the Körmend District
Districts in Vas County {{Vas-geo-stub