Szigetszentmiklós ( hu, Szigetszentmiklósi járás) is a district in south-western part of Pest County. ''

Szigetszentmiklós Szigetszentmiklós () is a city in Pest County, Hungary, with around 40,000 inhabitants. Name * Sziget – island: Szigetszentmiklós is a town on Csepel Island * Szent Miklós – Saint Nicholas, who is the patron saint of Szigetszentmikl� ...

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

Geography

Szigetszentmiklós District borders with

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

to the north,

Gyál District Gyál ( hu, Gyáli járás) is a district in central-southern part of Pest County. '' Gyál'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Gyál Dis ...

and Dabas District to the east, Ráckeve District to the south, Érd District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szigetszentmiklós District is 9.

Municipalities

The district has 6

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, 1 large village and 2 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 110,448 and the

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was 523/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 3,700), Roma (1,300), Slovak (1,100), Romanian (550), Croat (350), Bulgarian (250), Serb and Russian (200), Slovak (100). Total population (2011 census): 110,448
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 100,804 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 ...

: 92,788 (92.05%) *

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: 3,708 (3.68%) *

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: 1,270 (1.26%) *Others and indefinable: 3,038 (3.01%) Approx. 9,500 persons in Szigetszentmiklós 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 – 32,188 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 30,519;

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– 1,665); * Reformed – 12,343; *

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– 995; *

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-pa ...

– 188; *other religions – 2,722; *

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 ...

– 24,274; *

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 ...

– 2,206; *''Undeclared'' – 35,532.

Gallery

File:A Ráckevei-Duna holtága Szigetszentmiklósnál.JPG, Landscape near

File:Malonyai-kastély (7073. számú műemlék) 2.jpg, Malonyai Mansion in

Halásztelek Halásztelek ( bg, Халастелек, Halastelek) is a town in Pest County, Hungary. Halásztelek lies on the northern part of Csepel Island, on the Danube. History The Romans, during their occupation, found Halásztelek dangerous because of ...

File:Dunaharaszti1.jpg, Aerial view of

Dunaharaszti Dunaharaszti (german: Harast) is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. It has a population of around 20,000 people. Twin towns – sister cities Dunaharaszti is twinned with: * Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany Sport *Dunah ...

File:Szent Anna-kápolna (7465. számú műemlék).jpg, St. Anne Chapel in

Tököl Tököl ( sh, Tukulja) is a town in Pest County, Hungary. Demography The majority of residents are Hungarians, with a minority of Bunjevci. Hungarian Uprising An Budapest-Tököl airfield (47 20 35 N / 18 59 20 E) was built during World War ...

References

External links

Postal codes of the Szigetszentmiklós District
Districts in Pest County {{Pest-geo-stub