Hegyhát () is a district in northern part of
Baranya County
Baranya (, ; German language, German:Croatian language, Croatian:'' Baranjska županija'') is a Counties of Hungary, county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya (region), B ...
, Hungary. The district is located in the
Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. It is the only district in Hungarian countryside, which is not named after its district seat.
Geography
Hegyhát District borders with
Dombóvár District and
Tamási District ''(
Tolna County
Tolna (, ; ) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or vármegye) in present-day Hungary as it was in the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borde ...
)'' to the north,
Bonyhád District ''(Tolna County)'' to the east,
Komló District to the southeast,
Pécs District and
Szentlőrinc District to the south,
Szigetvár District to the southwest,
Kaposvár District ''(
Somogy County
Somogy (, ; ; , ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.
Somogy County lies in south-western Hungary, on the border with Croatia's Koprivnica- ...
)'' to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Hegyhát District is 25.
Municipalities
The district has 2
towns
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
and 23 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)
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The bolded municipalities are cities.
See also
*List of cities and towns in Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 Municipality, municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: , plural: ; the terminology does not distinguish between city, cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 village ...
References
External links
Postal codes of the Hegyhát District
Districts in Baranya County
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