Sárvár ( hu, Sárvári járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Vas County. '' Sárvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.

Geography

Sárvár District borders with

Sopron District Sopron ( hu, Soproni járás; german: Kreis Ödenburg) is a district in western part of Győr-Moson-Sopron County. ''Sopron'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statis ...

and

Kapuvár District Kapuvár ( hu, Kapuvári járás) is a district in central-western part of Győr-Moson-Sopron County. ''Kapuvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Regio ...

''( Győr-Moson-Sopron County)'' to the north,

Celldömölk District Celldömölk ( hu, Celldömölki járás) is a district in eastern part of Vas County. ''Celldömölk'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia Statist ...

and

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''( Veszprém County)'' to the east,

Zalaszentgrót District Zalaszentgrót ( hu, Zalaszentgróti járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Zala County. '' Zalaszentgrót'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Re ...

''( Zala County)'' to the south,

Vasvár District Vasvár ( hu, Vasvári járás) is a district in southern part of Vas County. ''Vasvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. ...

to the southwest,

Szombathely District Szombathely ( hu, Szombathelyi járás) is a district in central-western part of Vas County. ''Szombathely'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia St ...

and

Kőszeg District Kőszeg ( hu, Kőszegi járás) is a district in north-western part of Vas County. ''Kőszeg'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Kő ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Sárvár District is 42.

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 40 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 38,684 and the

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was 56/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 500) and Roma (400). Total population (2011 census): 38,684
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 34,410 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 ...

: 33,185 (96.44%) *

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: 512 (1.49%) * Gypsies: 390 (1.13%) *Others and indefinable: 323 (0.94%) Approx. 4,000 persons in Sárvár 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 – 24,648 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 24,606;

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– 32); *

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 ...

– 3,200; *

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– 543; *other religions – 209; * Non-religious – 1,197; *

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 ...

– 177; *''Undeclared'' – 8,710.

References

External links

Postal codes of the Sárvár District
Districts in Vas County {{Vas-geo-stub