Vecsés ( hu, Vecsési járás) is a district in central part of Pest County. ''

Vecsés Vecsés (german: Wetschesch) is a town of 20,550 inhabitants in Budapest metropolitan area, Pest County, Hungary, situated adjacent to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. History The village was first mentioned in records in 1318. In ...

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

Geography

Vecsés District borders with

Gödöllő District Gödöllő ( hu, Gödöllői járás) is a district in central-northern part of Pest County. ''Gödöllő'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geogra ...

to the north, Nagykáta District to the northeast, Monor District to the southeast,

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 ...

to the southwest,

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to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Vecsés District is 4.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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and 1 large village. (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 47,026 and the

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was 393/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 1,300), Roma (450), Slovak (350) and Romanian (300). Total population (2011 census): 47,026
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 43,405 persons: *

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: 40,264 (92.76%) *

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: 1,338 (3.08%) *

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: 469 (1.08%) *Others and indefinable: 1,334 (3.07%) Approx. 3,500 persons in Vecsés 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 – 15,439 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 15,037;

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– 395); * Reformed – 5,349; *

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– 1,397; *other religions – 945; *

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 ...

– 8,202; * Atheism – 663; *''Undeclared'' – 15,031.

Gallery

File:Vecsés légifotó2.jpg, Downtown of

File:Maglod rktemplom.jpg, Queen of the Rosary Church in

Maglód Maglód is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. History The name of Maglód was first mentioned in about 1200 by Anonymus in his narrative, according to which the grandfathers of the seventh leader of the conquest, Tét� ...

File:Üllő 1.jpg, Aerial view of Üllő File:Ferihegy from air.jpg,

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport ( hu, Budapest Liszt Ferenc Nemzetközi Repülőtér) , formerly known as ''Budapest Ferihegy International Airport'' and still commonly called just ''Ferihegy'', is the international airport serving t ...

References

External links

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