Fényeslitke is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Be ...

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of eastern

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Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 2407 people (2015). Situated in a flatland of the river

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it is only 20 kilometres from the Ukrainian border in the East and 15 km from Slovakia in the North. The next bigger town is

Kisvárda Kisvárda (; , ) is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary near the border of Slovakia and Ukraine. It is the 3rd largest town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg after Nyíregyháza and Mátészalka ...

, centre of the

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, some 6 km to the South. Fényeslitke is connected in the north-south direction by a main road Nr.4 and by railway. The rail is connected to the Ukrainian stations of Chop and Batovo. A large intermodal railway terminal is being built between Fényeslitke and Komoró for transferring

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from wide-gauge rail to normal-gauge wagons or to road trucks. Its owner, the East-West Intermodal Logistics Services Plc., states it should be operational in spring 2022 and become a gateway to the new silk road, named East-West Gate Intermodal Terminal (EWG).

References

Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub