Hajdúszoboszló () is a district in western part of Hajdú-Bihar County. ''

Hajdúszoboszló Hajdúszoboszló () is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, Hungary, southwest of county seat Debrecen. It is the third largest town in Hajdú-Bihar county. Etymology The name comes from a Slavic personal name Soběslav (see e.g. Soběslav, Soběsl ...

'' 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 Hajdúság historical and geographical region.

Geography

Hajdúszoboszló District borders with Balmazújváros District to the north, Debrecen District and Derecske District to the east, Püspökladány District to the south,

Karcag District Karcag () 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, Northern Great Plain Statistical Region ...

''( Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Hajdúszoboszló District is 5.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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and 3 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 43,061 and the

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was 55/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 650) and German (300) and Romanian (100). Total population (2011 census): 43,061
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 38,155 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 ...

: 36,770 (96.37%) *

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 , ...

: 618 (1.62%) *Others and indefinable: 767 (2.01%) Approx. 5,000 persons in Hajdúszoboszló 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,

' * Reformed Church in Hungary, Reformed – 11,291; *Catholic – 3,124 (

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 ...

– 2,607;

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 ...

– 517); *

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 ...

– 51; *other religions – 439; *

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 ...

– 17,235; *

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 ...

– 388; *''Undeclared'' – 10,533.

Gallery

File:Town Hall, Hajdúszoboszló 02.JPG,

, Town Hall File:Hajdúszoboszlói Aquapark.jpg, Spa in Hajdúszoboszló File:Keleti-főcsatorna Nagyhegyes.JPG, Keleti Canal near

Nagyhegyes Nagyhegyes is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 2714 people (2015). References

Populated places in Hajdú-Bihar County, ...

File:Nádudvar légi fotó.jpg, Reformed Church in Nádudvar

References

External links

Postal codes of the Hajdúszoboszló District
Districts in Hajdú-Bihar County {{Hajdu-geo-stub