Szekszárd ( hu, Szekszárdi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of
Tolna County
Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borders ...
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Szekszárd
Szekszárd (, formerly also ''Szegzárd''; hr, Seksar; german: Sechshard or ; sr, Сексард) is a small city in southern Hungary and the capital of Tolna County. By population, Szekszárd is the smallest county capital in Hungary; by area ...
'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the
Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Szekszárd District borders with
Paks District
Paks ( hu, Paksi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Tolna County. ''Paks'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Paks Distr ...
and
Tolna District to the north,
Baja District
Baja ( hu, Bajai járás; german: Kreis Baja) is a district in south-western part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Baja'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Regi ...
''(
Bács-Kiskun County)'' to the east,
Mohács District
Mohács ( hu, Mohácsi járás) is a district in eastern part of Baranya County, Hungary. ''Mohács'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geograp ...
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Baranya County
Baranya ( hu, Baranya megye, ) is a county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya region, which was a county (''comitatus'') in the Kingdom of Hungary dating back to the ...
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Bonyhád District and
Tamási District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szekszárd District is 17.
Municipalities
The district has 1
urban county, 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 ...
, 1 large village and 14 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)
The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.
See also
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List of cities and towns in Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages ...
References
External links
Postal codes of the Szekszárd District
Districts in Tolna County
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