Szob ( hu, Szobi járás) is a district in northern part of
Pest County. ''
Szob
Szob (german: Zopp an der Donau) is a town in Pest county, Central Hungary, Hungary. It is just south and east of the Slovak border on the north bank of the Danube.
Szob is on a major electrified rail connection from Bratislava and a major railw ...
'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the
Central Hungary Statistical Region.
Geography
Szob District borders with the
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
n region of
Nitra
Nitra (; also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. It is located 95 km east of Bratislava. With a population of about 78,353, it is the fifth la ...
to the north and west,
Balassagyarmat District
Balassagyarmat ( hu, Balassagyarmati járás) is a district in north-western part of Nógrád County. ''Balassagyarmat'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Reg ...
,
Rétság District
Rétság ( hu, Rétsági járás; sk, Rétságsky okres) is a district in western part of Nógrád County. ''Rétság'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Reg ...
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Nógrád County
Nógrád ( hu, Nógrád megye, ; sk, Novohradská župa) is a counties of Hungary, county ( hu, megye) of Hungary. It sits on the northern edge of Hungary and borders Slovakia.
Description
Nógrád county lies in northern Hungary. It shares bor ...
)'' and
Vác District to the east,
Szentendre District
Szentendre ( hu, Szentendrei járás) is a district in north-western part of Pest County. ''Szentendre'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region.
Geography ...
to the south,
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 southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Szob District is 17.
Municipalities
The district has 2
towns
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 15 villages.
The bolded municipalities are cities.
Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 24,875 and the
population density
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was 57/km².
Ethnicity
Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 900), Roma (500) and Slovak (100).
Total population (2011 census): 24,875
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 23,598 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 ...
: 21,716 (92.02%)
*
Germans
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, region1 =
, pop1 = 72,650,269
, region2 =
, pop2 = 534,000
, region3 =
, pop3 = 157,000
3,322,405
, region4 =
, pop4 = ...
: 865 (3.67%)
*
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 ...
: 515 (2.18%)
*Others and indefinable: 502 (2.13%)
Approx. 1,000 persons in Szob District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.
Religion
Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:
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*Catholic – 13,439 (
Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 13,316;
Greek Catholic The term Greek Catholic Church can refer to a number of Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine (Greek) liturgy, considered collectively or individually.
The terms Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic church or Byzantine Catholic, Byzantine Ca ...
– 118);
*
Reformed
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Reform may also refer to:
Media
* ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang
* Reform (band), a Swedish jazz fusion group
* ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine
*''Reforme'' ("Reforms"), initial name of the ...
– 2,078;
*
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 ...
– 405;
*other religions – 413;
*
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 ...
– 2,456;
*
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 ...
– 258;
*''Undeclared'' – 5,826.
Gallery
File:Szob, downtown, aerial photography.jpg, Downtown of Szob
Szob (german: Zopp an der Donau) is a town in Pest county, Central Hungary, Hungary. It is just south and east of the Slovak border on the north bank of the Danube.
Szob is on a major electrified rail connection from Bratislava and a major railw ...
File:Danube at Nagymaros.JPG, Danube
The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...
river from Nagymaros
Nagymaros (german: Großmarosch, sk, Veľká Maruša) is a town in Pest county, Hungary.
Etymology
The name comes from ''Maroš'', the Slavic form of Marianus. Nagymaros—"Greater Maros" ( Hungarian). The first written mention is ''Morus'' (1 ...
File:Magyarok Nagyasszonya templom.jpg, Our Lady of Hungary Church in Márianosztra
Márianosztra is a village in Pest county, Hungary.
Background
Márianosztra is home to the Pauline monastery of Márianosztra. The monastery was founded by Louis the Great
Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Velik ...
File:Nagybörzsöny04.JPG, Panorama from Ipolytölgyes
See also
*
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 Szob District
Districts in Pest County
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