Fehérgyarmat () is a district in eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. '' Fehérgyarmat'' 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 Szatmár historical and geographical region.

Geography

Fehérgyarmat District borders with

Vásárosnamény District Vásárosnamény () is a district in north-eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. '' Vásárosnamény'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Regi ...

and the Ukrainian oblast of Zakarpattia to the north,

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n county of

Satu Mare Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania ...

to the east, Csenger District to the south,

Mátészalka District Mátészalka () is a district in central-eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Mátészalka'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain, Northern Great Plain Sta ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Fehérgyarmat District is 50.

Municipalities

The district has 1

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, 2 large villages and 47 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is city, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 37,259 and the

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

was 53/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 4,500), Ukrainian, Romanian and German (150). Total population (2011 census): 37,259
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 38,367 persons: *

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an Ethnicity, ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common Culture of Hungary, culture, Hungarian language, language and History of Hungary, history. They also have a notable presence in former pa ...

: 33,254 (86.67%) *

Gypsies {{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , ...

: 4,578 (11.93%) *Others and indefinable: 535 (1.39%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Fehérgyarmat District did declare more than one 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,

' * Reformed Church in Hungary, Reformed – 23,258; *Catholic – 4,798 (

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

– 2,951;

Greek Catholic Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Greece * The Eastern Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Ea ...

– 1,847); *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...

– 327; * Orthodox – 39; *other religions – 994; *

Non-religious Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices. It encompasses a wide range of viewpoints drawn from various philosophical and intellectual perspectives, including atheism, agnosticism, religious skepticism, ration ...

– 1,935; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the Existence of God, existence of Deity, deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the ...

– 80; *''Undeclared'' – 5,828.

Gallery

File:Fehérgyarmat - Temple.jpg, Fehérgyarmat, the ''district seat'' File:Turul-Tiszaujlak.jpg, Turul Monument in Tiszabecs File:Túristvándi légifotó.jpg, Watermill of

Túristvándi Túristvándi is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is located in the eastern part of the county, in Satu Mare, on the shores of the Old Tour, in a wonderful natural environment ...

File:Kolcse.JPG, Wooden bell tower of Kölcse

References

External links

Postal codes of the Fehérgyarmat District
Districts in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub