Katymár (; or ; Bunjevac: ''Kaćmar'') 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 ...

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, ...

, 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 ...

Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 1843 people (2015).

Notable persons

Notable persons born in Katymár: * Mijo Mandić, Croatian writer (in Hungarian texts: ''Mándity Mihály'') * Ivan Petreš Čudomil, Croatian writer * Prof. Dr. József Krékits, professor emeritus, linguist Notable persons that lived and worked in Katymár: * Lajčo Budanović, bishop

References

Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County Hungarian German communities {{Bacs-geo-stub