Kiskunfélegyháza () is a district in eastern 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, ...

. ''

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 ...

'' 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

Kiskunfélegyháza District borders with

Kecskemét District Kecskemét () is a district in northern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kecskemét'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geogr ...

and

Tiszakécske District Tiszakécske () is a district in north-eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Tiszakécske'' 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 Tisza ...

to the north,

Csongrád District Csongrád () is a district in north-western part of Csongrád County. ''Csongrád'' 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 Csongrád Dis ...

''(

Csongrád County Csongrád (; , archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd,'' ) is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the Maros Valley was under Bulgarian control. The fortre ...

)'' to the east,

Kistelek District Kistelek () is a district in western part of Csongrád County. '' Kistelek'' 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 Kistelek District bor ...

''(Csongrád County)'' and

Kiskunmajsa District Kiskunmajsa () is a district in eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kiskunmajsa'' 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 Kiskunmajsa Di ...

to the south,

Kiskőrös District Kiskőrös () is a district in central part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kiskőrös'' 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 Kiskőrös Distr ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kiskunfélegyháza District is 6.

Municipalities

The district has 1

town 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 ...

, 1 large village and 4 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is city, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 37,455 and the

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

was 64/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 300), German (200) and Romanian (100). Total population (2011 census): 37,455
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 33,240 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 ...

: 32,326 (97.25%) *Others and indefinable: 914 (2.75%) Approx. 4,000 persons in Kiskunfélegyháza 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 – 22,542 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 22,464;

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– 72); *

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– 899; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...

– 74; *other religions – 349; *

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 ...

– 3,512; *

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 ...

– 276; *''Undeclared'' – 9,803.

Gallery

File:Kiskunfélegyvárosháza.JPG,

, Town Hall File:Bugac shelter.JPG, Landscape near

Bugac Bugac is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. It covers an area of and has a population of 2889 people (2010). The surrounding area, ''Bugac puszta'' is the largest of seven disjoint units ...

File:Kiskunfélegyháza Große Kirche.jpg, Our Lady Church in Kiskunfélegyháza File:Pusztaország - panoramio.jpg, ''Pusztaorság'' near Petőfiszállás

References

External links

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