Jászszentlászló 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 Bács-Kiskun county, in the

Southern Great Plain The Southern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád. The region is in the ...

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of 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 northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. It lies just south of

Kiskunfélegyháza Kiskunfélegyháza () is a city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary. Geography Kiskunfélegyháza is located in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, southeast from Budapest. M5 motorway, Highway 5, 451, Budapest–Cegléd–Szeged railway line ...

and just north of

Kiskunmajsa Kiskunmajsa is a town in the Kiskunmajsa district of Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. Twin towns – sister cities Kiskunmajsa is twinned with: * Bačka Topola, Serbia * Bad Schönborn, Germany * Baiyin, China * Gheorgheni Gheorgheni (; ...

. The town is a stophttp://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/hu/station/misc_G-J/jaszszentlaszlo.jpg on the railroad line between

Kecskemét Kecskemét ( ) is a city with county rights in central Hungary. It is the List of cities and towns of Hungary, eighth-largest city in the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun County, Bács-Kiskun. Kecskemét lies halfway between the ca ...

and Baja.

Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 2632 people (2002).

Economy

There are several agricultural enterprises. Some

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s still raise

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from the ground.

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Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County {{Bacs-geo-stub