Jánoshalma () is a district in southern part of

Bács-Kiskun County Bács-Kiskun (, ) is a county (''vármegye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created by the merger of the pre-World War II Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. With an area of 8,445 km2, ...

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Jánoshalma Jánoshalma () is a town in Bács-Kiskun county in southern Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northe ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography

Jánoshalma District borders with Kiskőrös District to the north,

Kiskunhalas District Kiskunhalas () is a district in south-eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Kiskunhalas'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Kiskunh ...

to the north and east, Bácsalmás District to the south, Baja District to the west, Kalocsa District to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Jánoshalma District is 5.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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and 3 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 17,341 and the

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was 39/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 800) and German (150). Total population (2011 census): 17,341
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 16,200 persons: *

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: 15,160 (93.58%) * Gypsies: 767 (4.73%) *Others and indefinable: 273 (1.69%) Approx. 1,000 persons in Jánoshalma 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,

' *Catholic – 11,378 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 11,360;

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– 15); * Reformed – 273; *

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– 42; *other religions – 247; *

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 ...

– 1,414; *

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 ...

– 80; *''Undeclared'' – 3,907.

Gallery

File:Jánoshalma városháza.JPG,

, Town Hall File:Melykut-20170811-szekelykapu.jpg, Park in Mélykút File:Felsőbácskai Műmalom.jpg, Historic Mill of Upper Bácska (Jánoshalma) File:Melykut-20170812-templomejszaka.jpg, St. Joachim Church in Mélykút

References

External links

Postal codes of the Jánoshalma District
Districts in Bács-Kiskun County {{Bacs-geo-stub