Törökszentmiklós ( hu, Törökszentmiklósi járás) is a district in central part of

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 ...

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Törökszentmiklós Törökszentmiklós is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. It is the third-largest settlement in the county. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 23,145 (2002). His ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of Nagykunság historical and geographical region.

Geography

Törökszentmiklós District borders with

Kunhegyes District Kunhegyes ( hu, Kunhegyesi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Kunhegyes'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical ...

to the north,

Karcag District Karcag ( hu, Karcagi járás) is a district in eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Hungary. ''Karcag'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. ...

to the east,

Mezőtúr District Mezőtúr ( hu, Mezőtúri járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Mezőtúr'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical ...

to the southeast,

Szolnok District Szolnok ( hu, Szolnoki járás) is a district in western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Szolnok'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geo ...

to the west and north. The number of the inhabited places in Törökszentmiklós District is 7.

Municipalities

The district has 2

towns 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 ...

and 5 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 36,739 and the

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was 79/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 1,500) and German (100). Total population (2011 census): 36,739
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 33,338 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 ...

: 31,779 (95.32%) *

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 ...

: 1,208 (3.62%) *Others and indefinable: 351 (1.05%) Approx. 3,500 persons in Törökszentmiklós 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 – 10,728 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 10,655;

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– 73); * Reformed – 3,780; *

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 ...

– 49; *other religions – 301; *

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 ...

– 12,179; *

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 ...

– 310; *''Undeclared'' – 9,392.

Gallery

File:Törökszentmiklós - Palace.jpg, Almásy Mansion in

File:Tiszapüspöki, Tisza.jpg,

Tisza The Tisza, Tysa or Tisa, is one of the major rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. Once, it was called "the most Hungarian river" because it flowed entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national borders. The Tisza be ...

river near

Tiszapüspöki Tiszapüspöki is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. It is an agricultural village. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically refers to the nu ...

File:Fegyvernek1.jpg, Puszatorony from above (

Fegyvernek Fegyvernek ( la, Machæropolis) is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. Geography It covers an area of . Population It has a population Population typically refers to the number ...

) File:Szélmalomdomb2.JPG, Windmill Hill near Kengyel

References

External links

Postal codes of the Törökszentmiklós District
Districts in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Jasz-geo-stub