Szolnok ( hu, Szolnoki járás) is a district in western part of

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok ( hu, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megye, ) is the name of an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or ''megye'') in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest ...

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Szolnok Szolnok (; also known by other #Name and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A City with county rights, city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, i ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography

Szolnok District borders with

Jászberény District Jászberény ( hu, Jászberényi járás) is a district in north-western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Jászberény'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Stat ...

and

Jászapáti District Jászapáti ( hu, Jászapáti járás) is a district in north-western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Jászapáti'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statist ...

to the north,

Kunhegyes District Kunhegyes ( hu, Kunhegyesi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Kunhegyes'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical ...

Törökszentmiklós District Törökszentmiklós ( hu, Törökszentmiklósi járás) is a district in central part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Törökszentmiklós'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern G ...

and

Mezőtúr District Mezőtúr ( hu, Mezőtúri járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Mezőtúr'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical ...

to the east,

Kunszentmárton District Kunszentmárton ( hu, Kunszentmártoni járás) is a district in southern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Kunszentmárton'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain ...

and

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 south,

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 ...

and Nagykáta District ''( Pest County)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szolnok District is 18.

Municipalities

The district has 1 urban county, 4

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 13 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 118,241 and the

population density Population density (in agriculture: 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 term.Matt RosenberPopul ...

was 129/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 3,000), German (600), Russian (250) and Romanian (200). Total population (2011 census): 118,241
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 106,079 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 ...

: 100,632 (94.87%) *

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 ...

: 3,108 (2.93%) *Others and indefinable: 2,339 (2.20%) Approx. 12,000 persons in Szolnok 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 – 36,277 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 35,678;

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 ...

– 589); * Reformed – 7,721; *

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 ...

– 525; *other religions – 1,427; *

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 ...

– 35,231; *

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 ...

– 2,257; *''Undeclared'' – 34,803.

Gallery

File:Megyeszékhely - Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megye - Szolnok.jpg,

, the ''Capital of Tisza'' File:SSA41313tisza.JPG, Martfű, from the

Tisza The Tisza, Tysa or Tisa, is one of the major rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. Once, it was called "the most Hungarian river" because it flowed entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national borders. The Tisza be ...

river File:Tószeg légifotó2.jpg, Aerial view of

Tószeg Tószeg is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it ...

File:Újszász - Palace.jpg, Orczy Mansion in

Újszász Újszász is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 6153 people (2015). Twin towns – sister cities Újszász is twinned with: * ...

File:Tisza river - Szolnok, Hungary (14).JPG,

Tiszavirág Bridge Tiszavirág híd (Mayfly Bridge) is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Szolnok, Hungary on the Tisza river. History The project was completed under the program called „Szolnok, the Capital of Tisza”. The European Union supported the HUF 5 b ...

File:Kutyás fiú (Kligl Sándor) és a Városháza, Kossuth tér, 2017 Szolnok.jpg, Town Hall in Szolnok File:Szigligeti Theater - Szolnok 2.jpg, Szigligeti Theater (Szolnok) File:A tiszasülyi római katolikus templom1.jpg, St. Ladislaus Church in Tiszasüly

References

External links

Postal codes of the Szolnok District
Districts in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Jasz-geo-stub