Mezőkövesd ( hu, Mezőkövesdi járás) is a district in south-western part of

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén ( hu, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye, ; sk, Boršodsko-abovsko-zemplínska) is an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye)'' in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the border with Slovakia ( K ...

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Mezőkövesd Mezőkövesd is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary. It lies from Miskolc and from Eger. History The area has been inhabited since the Great Migration. It is likely that the first Hungarian settlement was formed here sh ...

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

Geography

Mezőkövesd District borders with

Miskolc District Miskolc ( hu, Miskolci járás) is a district in central-western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Miskolc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. ...

to the northeast, Mezőcsát District to the east,

Tiszafüred District Tiszafüred ( hu, Tiszafüredi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Tiszafüred'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Stati ...

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Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok ( hu, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megye, ) is the name of an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye'') in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zempl ...

)'' to the south,

Füzesabony District Füzesabony ( hu, Füzesabonyi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Heves County. '' Füzesabony'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geog ...

and

Eger District Eger ( hu, Egri járás) is a district in eastern part of Heves County. ''Eger'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. This district lies between of Bükk ...

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Heves County Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun ...

)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Mezőkövesd District is 23.

Municipalities

The district has 2

towns 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 ...

, 1 large village and 20 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 42,432 and the

population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

was 59/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,500) and German (200). Total population (2011 census): 42,432
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 40,091 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 ...

: 37,326 (93.10%) *

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 ...

: 2,202 (5.49%) *Others and indefinable: 563 (1.40%) Approx. 2,500 persons in Mezőkövesd 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 – 22,530 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 22,312;

Greek Catholic The term Greek Catholic Church can refer to a number of Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine (Greek) liturgy, considered collectively or individually. The terms Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic church or Byzantine Catholic, Byzantine Ca ...

– 212); * Reformed – 6,163; *

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 ...

– 55; *other religions – 522; *

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 ...

– 3,274; * Atheism – 228; *''Undeclared'' – 9,662.

Gallery

File:Hungary Mezokovesd agriculture museum 1.jpg, Agriculture Museum in

File:Zsory furdocivertanlegi6.jpg, Zsóry Baths in Mezőkövesd File:Beehive stone.jpg, Beehive stone in Tibolddaróc File:Bogács-Hungary-church.jpg, St. Martin Church in Bogács

References

External links

Postal codes of the Mezőkövesd District
Districts in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub