Nagykáta () is a district in eastern part of Pest County. ''

Nagykáta Nagykáta is a town in , Hungary, about from Budapest. Connections Express trains take 47 minutes to Budapest Keleti railway station from Nagykáta and stopping trains about 65 minutes. History The history of Nagykáta dates back to the 12th ...

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

Geography

Nagykáta District borders with

Jászberény District Jászberény () is a district in north-western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Jászberény'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain, Northern Great Plain Statistic ...

''( Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County)'' to the northeast,

Szolnok District Szolnok () is a district in western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Szolnok'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Szolnok Dis ...

''(Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County)'' to the east, Cegléd District to the south,

Monor District Monor () is a district in central-eastern part of Pest County. '' Monor'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Monor District borders with ...

and Vecsés District to the southwest, Aszód District to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Nagykáta District is 15.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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, 2 large villages and 10 villages (population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 73,959 and the

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was 104/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,250), German and Romanian (275). Total population (2011 census): 73,959
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 67,414 persons: *

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an Ethnicity, ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common Culture of Hungary, culture, Hungarian language, language and History of Hungary, history. They also have a notable presence in former pa ...

: 64,033 (94.98%) *

Gypsies {{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , ...

: 2,233 (3.31%) *Others and indefinable: 1,148 (1.70%) Approx. 5,500 persons in Nagykáta 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 – 37,980 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 37,697;

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– 277); *

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– 5,474; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...

– 1,527; *other religions – 1,251; *

Non-religious Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices. It encompasses a wide range of viewpoints drawn from various philosophical and intellectual perspectives, including atheism, agnosticism, religious skepticism, ration ...

– 8,408; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the Existence of God, existence of Deity, deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the ...

– 556; *''Undeclared'' – 18,763.

Gallery

File:Saint George Church, aerial, Nagykáta.jpg, Downtown of

File:Tóalmás - Palace.jpg, Andrássy Mansion in

Tóalmás Tóalmás is a village in Pest county, Hungary. History The village first appears in writing in 1406 under the name "''Almás''". During the Árpád dynasty, the land belonged to a nearby Premonstratensian monastery. A settlement began to em ...

File:Sülysáp - 2014.02.26 (16).JPG, Panorama of Sülysáp File:Római katolikus templom, Kóka.jpg, Roman Catholic Church in Kóka

References

External links

Postal codes of the Nagykáta District
Districts in Pest County {{Pest-geo-stub