Szentendre ( hu, Szentendrei járás) is a district in north-western part of Pest County. ''

Szentendre Szentendre () is a riverside town in Pest County, Hungary, between the capital city Budapest and Pilis Mountains, Pilis-Visegrád Mountains. The town is known for its museums (most notably the :hu: Szentendrei Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Open- ...

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

Geography

Szentendre District borders with Szob District to the north, Vác District and

Dunakeszi District Dunakeszi ( hu, Dunakeszi járás) is a district in central-northern part of Pest County. ''Dunakeszi'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary, Central Hungary Statistical Regio ...

to the east,

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to the south, Pilisvörösvár District to the southwest,

Esztergom District Esztergom ( hu, Esztergomi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Esztergom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Reg ...

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Komárom-Esztergom County Komárom-Esztergom ( hu, Komárom-Esztergom megye, ; german: Komitat Komorn-Gran; sk, Komárňansko-ostrihomská župa) is an administrative Hungarian county in Central Transdanubia Region; its shares its northern border the Danube with Slova ...

)'' to the west. The district includes the whole of Szentendre Island in the Danube. The number of the inhabited places in Szentendre District is 13.

Municipalities

The district has 4

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, 1 large village and 8 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 77,802 and the

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was 238/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 2,500), Slovak (1,100), Roma (1,000), Serb (450), Romanian (300), Russian and Polish (150), Croat (100). Total population (2011 census): 77,802
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 75,440 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 ...

: 68,057 (90.21%) *

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: 2,585 (3.43%) *

Slovaks The Slovaks ( sk, Slováci, singular: ''Slovák'', feminine: ''Slovenka'', plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak. In Slovakia, 4.4 mi ...

: 1,093 (1.45%) *

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 ...

: 1,030 (1.36%) *Others and indefinable: 2,675 (3.55%) Approx. 2,500 persons in Szentendre 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 – 29,034 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 28,351;

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– 665); * Reformed – 9,305; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...

– 959; *

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pa ...

– 354; *

Judaism Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in the ...

– 128; *other religions – 1,744; *

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 anti ...

– 12,811; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no d ...

– 1,607; *''Undeclared'' – 21,860.

Gallery

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Visegrád Castle Visegrád (; german: Plintenburg; la, Pone Navata or ; sk, Vyšehrad) is a castle town in Pest County, Hungary. It is north of Budapest on the right bank of the Danube in the Danube Bend. It had a population of 1,864 in 2010. The town is the ...

File:Kóruskastély kúttal.jpg, Teleki–Wattay Mansion in

Pomáz Pomáz (german: Paumasch) is a small town in Pest County, Hungary. It is located on the HÉV commuter train line from Budapest to Szentendre Teje. Sights Pomáz is famous for its Serbian Orthodox church. Just as in nearby Szentendre, a Serbia ...

File:Csobánka Oszoly.jpg, Panorama of

Csobánka Csobánka is a village in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the no ...

References

External links

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