Szatmárcseke is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Be ...

region of eastern

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...

Geography

It lies at a distance of 94 km from

Nyíregyháza Nyíregyháza (, ) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in the Northern Great ...

, 29 km from Vásárosnamény, 17 km from Fehérgyarmat, 18 km from

Tiszabecs Tiszabecs is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is located on the eastern edge of the county, next to the Ukrainian border, on the edge of the Satu Mare plain, on the left ban ...

, and 11 km from

Tiszacsécse Tiszacsécse is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 245 people (2015). History The name of the settlement appears in wr ...

History

The first written mention of the village arose in 1181 as Cseke. This time it was a thriving village that owned a church. (Hungarian)

References

Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub