Nagykőrös ( hu, Nagykőrösi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Pest County. ''

Nagykőrös Nagykőrös is a town in Pest County, Hungary. János Arany taught there from about 1851, and a local museum is named for him. Notable people * Szabolcs Czira (b. 1951), politician * Frigyes Hegedűs (1920–2008), pentathlete *István Kecskés ...

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

Geography

Nagykőrös District borders with

Cegléd District Cegléd ( hu, Ceglédi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Pest County. ''Cegléd'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Cegléd ...

to the north,

Tiszakécske District Tiszakécske ( hu, Tiszakécskei járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Tiszakécske'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical ...

''( Bács-Kiskun County)'' to the southeast,

Kecskemét District Kecskemét ( hu, Kecskeméti járás) is a district in northern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kecskemét'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain Sta ...

''(Bács-Kiskun County)'' to the southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Nagykőrös District is 3.

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 The word "town" shares an ori ...

and 2 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 27,977 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 80/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 500), German (150) and Romanian (100). Total population (2011 census): 27,977
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 25,043 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 ...

: 24,008 (95.87%) *

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 ...

: 467 (1.86%) *Others and indefinable: 568 (2.27%) Approx. 3,000 persons in Nagykőrös 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 – 7,406 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 7,368;

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– 37); * Reformed – 6,388; *

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 ...

– 93; *other religions – 459; *

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 ...

– 5,393; * Atheism – 236; *''Undeclared'' – 8,002.

Gallery

File:Nagykőrös, Szabadság tér, Postapalota.jpg, Downtown of

File:Kocsér3.jpg, Aerial view of Kocsér File:Arany János Múzeum, volt méntelep, huszárkaszárnya (7157. számú műemlék) 2.jpg,

János Arany János Arany (; archaic English: John Arany; 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been transl ...

Museum in Nagykőrös File:Református templom és Városháza. Műemlék ID 7173 és 7176. - Nagykőrös.JPG, Reformed Church in Nagykőrös

References

External links

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