Tata ( hu, Tatai járás) is a district in northern part of

Komárom-Esztergom County Komárom-Esztergom ( hu, Komárom-Esztergom megye, ; german: Komitat Komorn-Gran; sk, Komárňansko-ostrihomská župa) is an administrative Hungarian county in Central Transdanubia Region; its shares its northern border the Danube with Slova ...

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

Geography

Tata District borders with the

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n region of

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to the north,

Esztergom District Esztergom ( hu, Esztergomi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Esztergom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Reg ...

to the east,

Tatabánya District Tatabánya ( hu, Tatabányai járás; german: Kreis Totiserkolonie) is a district in south-eastern part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Tatabánya'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Cent ...

and

Oroszlány District Oroszlány ( hu, Oroszlányi járás) is a district in southern part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Oroszlány'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia, Central Transdanub ...

to the south,

Komárom District Komárom ( hu, Komáromi járás) is a district in north-western part of Komárom-Esztergom County. ''Komárom'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Tata District is 10.

Municipalities

The district has 1

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and 9 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 38,783 and the

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was 126/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 1,700), Slovak (500) and Roma (250). Total population (2011 census): 38,783
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 36,379 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 ...

: 33,392 (91.79%) *

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: 1,713 (4.70%) *

Slovaks The Slovaks ( sk, Slováci, singular: ''Slovák'', feminine: ''Slovenka'', plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak. In Slovakia, 4.4 mi ...

: 447 (1.23%) *Others and indefinable: 827 (2.27%) Approx. 2,500 persons in Tata 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 – 13,659 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 13,532;

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– 121); *

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 ...

– 6,497; *

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 ...

– 424; *other religions – 433; *

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 ...

– 6,490; *

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 ...

– 537; *''Undeclared'' – 10,743.

References

External links

Postal codes of the Tata District
Districts in Komárom-Esztergom County {{Komarom-geo-stub