Tokaj ( hu, Tokaji járás) is a district in eastern part of

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén ( hu, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye, ; sk, Boršodsko-abovsko-zemplínska) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''megye)'' in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the bord ...

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Tokaj Tokaj () is a historical town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, 54 kilometers from county capital Miskolc. It is the centre of the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine district where Tokaji wine is produced. History The wine-growing area wa ...

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

Geography

Tokaj District borders with

Gönc District Gönc ( hu, Gönci járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. '' Gönc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geogr ...

to the north,

Sárospatak District Sárospatak ( hu, Sárospataki járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Sárospatak'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistica ...

and

Nyíregyháza District Nyíregyháza ( hu, Nyíregyházi járás) is a district in western part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Nyíregyháza'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statis ...

''(

Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg ( hu, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megye, ) is an administrative county (Hungarian: ''megye'') in north-eastern Hungary, bordering Slovakia (Košice Region), Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast), and Romania ( Bihor and Satu Mare cou ...

)'' to the east, Tiszavasvári District ''(Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County)'' to the south,

Szerencs District Szerencs ( hu, Szerencsi járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Szerencs'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Regio ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Tokaj District is 11.

Municipalities

The district has 1

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and 10 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 13,331 and the

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was 52/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx. 650). Total population (2011 census): 13,331
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 12,653 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 ...

: 11,848 (93.64%) *

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 ...

: 620 (4.90%) *Others and indefinable: 185 (1.46%) Approx. 500 persons in Tokaj 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 – 5,655 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 4,655;

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– 998); *

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– 3,436; *

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– 41; *other religions – 95; *

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 ...

– 1,096; *

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 ...

– 89; *''Undeclared'' – 2,919.

Gallery

File:Tokajcivertanlegi1.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:TarcalDegenfeld1.JPG, Degenfeld Mansion in

Tarcal Tarcal is a village on the eastern edge of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Counties of Hungary, county, northern Hungary, in the famous Tokaj-Hegyalja wine district, from Miskolc. Geography Tarcal is located at , at the western foot of the 516 m high ...

File:Erdőbénye, látkép.JPG, Aerial view of

Erdőbénye The village Erdőbénye has around 1000 inhabitants and is located 20 km from the town of Tokaj in Northern Hungary. It lies in a valley surrounded by mountains and vineyards, in the middle of the famous wine-region ‘Tokaj-Hegyalja’, in ...

File:The Tokaj mountain 3.JPG, Wineyards near Tokaj

References

External links

Postal codes of the Tokaj District
Districts in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub