Tékes () is a

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() in

Hegyhát District Hegyhát ( hu, Hegyháti járás) is a district in northern part of Baranya County. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. It is the only district in Hungarian countryside, which is not named after its district se ...

, northern Baranya county, in the

Southern Transdanubia Southern Transdanubia ( hu, Dél-Dunántúl) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Transdanubia (NUTS 1) region. Southern Transdanubia includes the counties of Somogy, Tolna, and Baranya. Its capital is the city of Pécs ...

region of

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

. Its population at the 2011 census was 248.

Geography

The village is located at 46° 17′ 9″ N, 18° 10′ 19″ E. Its area is . It is part of the

statistical region, and administratively it falls under Baranya County and then

. It lies north of the city of Pécs and southeast of the village of

Vásárosdombó Vásárosdombó is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the ...

Demographics

2011 census

As of the census of 2011, there were 248 residents, 90 households, and 69 families living in the village. The

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was 51 inhabitants per square mile (20/km²). There were 101 dwellings at an average density of 21 per square mile (8/km²). The average household size was 2.66. The average number of children was 1.26. The average family size was 3.01. Religious affiliation was 51.5%

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, 0.4%

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, 6.3%

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, 1.3% other and 23.8% unaffiliated, with 16.7% declining to answer. The village had a significant

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population of 21.8%. There were also small numbers of

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(1.7%) and

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(0.4%). The vast majority declared themselves as Hungarian (95.4%), with 4.6% declining to answer.

Local government

The village is governed by a

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with a four-person council. The local government of the village operates a joint council office with the nearby localities of

Ág Ág (, ) is a village () in northern Baranya County, Hegyhát District, in southern Hungary. Its population at the 2011 Census was 177. Until the end of World War II, the majority of the Inhabitants was Protestant Danube Swabians, Mostly of the ...

Gerényes Gerényes is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to th ...

Kisvaszar Kisvaszar is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northea ...

, Tarrós and

. The seat of the joint council is in Vásárosdombó. As of the election of 2019, the village also has a local

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for its

community, with three elected representatives.

Transportation

Railway

* Vásárosdombó Train Station, to the west of the village. The station is on the Pusztaszabolcs–Pécs and Dombóvár-Komló railway lines and is operated by

MÁV Hungarian State Railways ( hu, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV) is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV START Zrt." (passenger transport), "MÁV-Gépészet Zrt." (maintenance), "MÁV-Trakció Zrt." and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" (freig ...

Attractions

* Lutheran Church * Roman Catholic Church

External links

OpenStreetMap

Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary

Notes

References

Populated places in Baranya County {{Baranya-geo-stub