Ibrány () is a district in north-western part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. '' Ibrány'' 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 Rétköz geographical region.

Geography

Ibrány District borders with

Sárospatak District Sárospatak () is a district in north-eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Sárospatak'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Northern Hungary Statistical Region ...

and

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''( Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County)'' to the north,

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and Kemecse District to the east,

Nyíregyháza District Nyíregyháza () is a district in western part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Nyíregyháza'' 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 distri ...

to the south and west. The number of the inhabited places in Ibrány District is 8.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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, 1 large village and 5 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 23,679 and the

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was 78/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,500) and German (150). Total population (2011 census): 23,679
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 23,826 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 ...

: 20,973 (88.02%) *

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: 2,592 (10.88%) *Others and indefinable: 261 (1.10%) Approx. 150 persons in Ibrány 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 – 8,835; *Catholic – 7,592 (

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– 5,575;

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– 2,017); *

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– 92; *other religions – 471; *

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 ...

– 1,936; *

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 ...

– 71; *''Undeclared'' – 4,682.

Gallery

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Gávavencsellő Gávavencsellő is a large village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. The village was established in 1971 by merging the former separate villages of Gáva and Vencsellő. Geography It cov ...

File:Tiszabercel légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of Tiszabercel File:Balsai reformatus templom.jpg, Reformed Church in

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References

External links

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