Szentes ( hu, Szentesi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of

Csongrád County Csongrád ( ro, Ciongrad; tr, Conğrad sr, Чонград, Čongrad, archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd'') is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the ...

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Szentes Szentes is a town in south-eastern Hungary, Csongrád county, near the Tisza river. The town is a cultural and educational center of the region. Notable people * Árpád Balázs (born 1937), classical music composer * János Bácskai 1954. novembe ...

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

Geography

Szentes District borders with

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 ...

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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 ...

)'' and

Szarvas District Szarvas ( hu, Szarvasi járás; sk, Sarvašský okres) is a district in western part of Békés County. '' Szarvas'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Re ...

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Békés County Békés (, , ro, Județul Bichiș) is an administrative division (county or ''megye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The ...

)'' to the north,

Orosháza District Orosháza ( hu, Orosházi járás) is a district in south-western part of Békés County. Orosháza is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain Statistical ...

''(Békés County)'' to the east,

Hódmezővásárhely District Hódmezővásárhely ( hu, Hódmezővásárhelyi járás) is a district in eastern part of Csongrád County. '' Hódmezővásárhely'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Pl ...

to the south,

Csongrád District Csongrád ( hu, Csongrádi járás) is a district in north-western part of Csongrád County. ''Csongrád'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. G ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szentes District is 8.

Municipalities

The district has 1

town 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 ...

, 2 large villages and 5 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is city, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 41,328 and the

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was 51/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 600) and German (150). Total population (2011 census): 41,328
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 36,753 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 ...

: 35,631 (96.95%) *

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 ...

: 569 (1.55%) *Others and indefinable: 553 (1.50%) Approx. 4,500 persons in Szentes 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 – 11,572 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 11,493;

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 ...

– 73); *

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 ...

– 4,964; *

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 ...

– 413; *

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-pag ...

– 41; *other religions – 293; *

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 ...

– 12,244; *

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 ...

– 614; *''Undeclared'' – 11,187.

Gallery

File:Szentes légifotó1.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:Nagymagocs Karolyi kastely.jpg, Károlyi Castle in

Nagymágocs Nagymágocs is a village in Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be ...

File:Ecseri templomrom.jpg, Church ruins of Ecser (Szentes) File:Derekegyháza - Palace.jpg, Károlyi Mansion in Derekegyház

References

External links

Postal codes of the Szentes District
Districts in Csongrád-Csanád County {{Csongrad-geo-stub