Szécsény ( hu, Szécsényi járás) is a district in northern part of

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 ...

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Szécsény Szécsény is a town in Nógrád county, Hungary. Etymology The name comes from the Slavic ''sečь'': cutting (''Sečany''). 1219/1550 ''Scecen''. History The valley of the Ipoly and especially the area of that around Szécsény was inhabited ...

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

Geography

Szécsény District borders with the

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n region of

Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica (, also known by other alternative names) is a middle-sized town in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mo ...

to the north and west,

Salgótarján District Salgótarján ( hu, Salgótarjáni járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Nógrád County. ''Salgótarján'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region ...

to the northeast,

Pásztó District Pásztó ( hu, Pásztói járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Nógrád County. ''Pásztó'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Northern Hungary Statistical Regi ...

to the south,

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 ...

to the southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Szécsény District is 14.

Municipalities

The district has 1

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and 13 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 19,587 and the

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was 69/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx. 3,000). Total population (2011 census): 19,587
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 20,415 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 ...

: 17,548 (85.96%) *

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: 2,686 (13.16%) *Others and indefinable: 181 (0.89%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Szécsény District did declare more than one 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 – 14,152 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 14,134;

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– 17); *

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 ...

– 163; *

Reformed Reform is beneficial change 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 ...

– 146; *other religions – 339; *

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 ...

– 1,044; *

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 ...

– 56; *''Undeclared'' – 3,687.

Gallery

File:Civertanlegifotoszecseny1.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:Hollókő Ófalu Fő utca (részlet).jpg, View of

Hollókő Hollókő () is a Palóc ethnographic village in Hungary and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its name means "Raven-stone" in Hungarian. Location The village is located in Nógrád county, approximately 91.1 kilometres northeast from Budapest, th ...

File:Cserhát Mountains, north of Hollókő.JPG,

Cserhát Cserhát () is a mountain range in Hungary, part of the North Hungarian Mountains, divided between Pest and Nógrád counties. Its highest point is the Naszály with an elevation of 654 metres above sea level. Cserhát stretches from Cserhá ...

mountains from Hollókő Castle File:Szent Mihály templom - Varsány.JPG, St. Michael Church in Varsány

References

External links

Postal codes of the Szécsény District
Districts in Nógrád County {{Nograd-geo-stub