Letenye ( hu, Letenyei járás) is a district in south-western part of
Zala County
Zala ( hu, Zala megye, ; ; ) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia ( Koprivnica–Križevci and Međimurje Counties) and Slovenia (Lendava ...
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Letenye
Letenye (, sl, Letina) is a town in Zala County, Hungary, on the border with Croatia. Across the border is the town of Goričan. Letenye was elevated to town status in 1989.
History
Transport
Letenye is the endpoint of the Hungarian M7 motor ...
'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the
Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Letenye District borders with
Lenti District
Lenti ( hu, Lenti járás) is a district in Zala County. ''Lenti'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Lenti District borders with K ...
to the northwest,
Zalaegerszeg District
Zalaegerszeg ( hu, Zalaegerszegi járás) is a district in northern part of Zala County. ''Zalaegerszeg'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geog ...
to the north,
Nagykanizsa District
Nagykanizsa ( hu, Nagykanizsai járás) is a district in southern part of Zala County. ''Nagykanizsa'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geograp ...
to the east, the
Croatia
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n county of
Međimurje and
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
to the southwest. The number of inhabited places in Letenye District is 27.
The seat of the Letenye district was Letenye since the first designation of the permanent district seats (1886).
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
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and 26 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)
The bolded municipality is city.
See also
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List of cities and towns in Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages ...
References
External links
Postal codes of the Letenye District
Districts in Zala County
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