Mezőkovácsháza is a
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
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Békés County
Békés (, , ro, Județul Bichiș) is an administrative division (county or ''megye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The ...
, in the
Southern Great Plain
The Southern Great Plain ( hu, Dél-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes three counties:
* Bács-Kiskun
* Békés
* Csongrád-Csanád
See ...
region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human impact characteristics ( human geography), and the interaction of humanity an ...
of south-east
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
.
Geography
It covers an
area
Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an ope ...
of and has a
population
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of 6945 people (2002).
Notable residents
*
György Simonka (1974-), politician
*
József Balázs (1984-), footballer
*
Zoltán Farkas, musician
Twin towns – sister cities
Mezőkovácsháza is
twinned with:
*
Moneasa
Moneasa ( hu, Menyháza) is a commune in Arad County, Romania. Its administrative surface stretches over and it is composed of two villages, Moneasa and Rănușa (''Kisróna'').
Geography
The commune is located in the northeastern part of Arad ...
, Romania
*
Praid
Praid (, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Salzberg) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is composed of six villages:
Demographics
The commune has an a ...
, Romania
*
Semlac, Romania
*
Vinga, Romania
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Civic Union of Mezőkovácsháza , Mezőkovácsházi Polgári Egyesület
Populated places in Békés County
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