Fertőszentmiklós is a small town in
Győr-Moson-Sopron county,
Hungary
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Geography
Fertőszentmiklós is located on the Small Plain and it is part of the Transdanubian region. It has a population of 3854 people (2015). Fertőszentmiklós is very well situated because it's close to the Hungarian-Austrian border. The name of the town comes from the fusion of two smaller villages: Szentmiklós and Szerdahely. So they called the new village Fertőszentmiklós.
Twin towns — sister cities
Fertőszentmiklós is
twinned
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* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
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References
External links
* in Hungarian
Street map
* http://www.nemzetijelkepek.hu/onkormanyzat-fertoszentmiklos_en.shtml
Populated places in Győr-Moson-Sopron County
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