Makó () is a district in south-eastern part of

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 ...

. ''

Makó Makó (, , Makowe, or , ) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 21,913 people and it has an area of , of which is arable land. Makó is the fourth-larges ...

'' 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

Makó District borders with

Hódmezővásárhely District Hódmezővásárhely () is a district in eastern part of Csongrád County. ''Hódmezővásárhely'' 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 Statistica ...

and Orosháza District ''(

Békés County Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital ...

)'' to the north, the

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n counties of Arad to the east and

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to the south,

Szeged District Szeged (; ; ) is a district in southern part of Csongrád County. ''Szeged'' 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 Szeged District borde ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Makó District is 15.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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, 1 large village and 12 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 45,138 and the

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was 66/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 1,200), Romanian (650), Slovak (200), German (150) and Serb (100). Total population (2011 census): 45,138
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 43,043 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 ...

: 40,574 (94.26%) *

Gypsies {{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , ...

: 1,101 (2.56%) *

Romanians Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, ...

: 662 (1.54%) *Others and indefinable: 706 (1.64%) Approx. 2,000 persons in Makó 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 – 17,365 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 16,535;

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– 827); *

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– 5,187; *

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 ...

– 411; * Orthodox – 292; *other religions – 675; *

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 ...

– 11,672; *

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 ...

– 464; *''Undeclared'' – 9,072.

Gallery

File:Makó légifotó1.jpg,

, the ''Capital of onion'' File:Rónay caste Kiszombor.JPG, Rónay Castle in Kiszombor File:Magyarcsanád légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of

Magyarcsanád Magyarcsanád (; ) is a multi-ethnic village located in Csongrád-Csanád County, southeastern Hungary, near the Mureș () River. The river Maros forms the border between southern Hungary and Romania. The village has an outskirt called Bökén ...

File:Óföldeák Church.JPG, Roman Catholic Church in

Óföldeák Óföldeák is a village in Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments ...

References

External links

Postal codes of the Makó District
Districts in Csongrád-Csanád County {{Csongrad-geo-stub