Mezőkovácsháza is a
town
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
in
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 ...
, 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 ...
region
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of south-east
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
area
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of and has a
population
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of 6945 people (2002).
Notable residents
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György Simonka
György Simonka (born March 14, 1974) is a Hungarian businessman and politician, National Assembly of Hungary, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Mezőkovácsháza (Békés County Constituency VII) from 2010 to 2014, and for Orosháza (Bék ...
(1974-), politician
*
József Balázs
József Balázs (born 9 May 1984 in Orosháza) is a retired Hungarian football
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(1984-), footballer
*
Zoltán Farkas, musician
Twin towns – sister cities
Mezőkovácsháza is
twinned with:
*
Moneasa, Romania
*
Praid
Praid (, Hungarian pronunciation: ; ) is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is composed of six villages: Becaș (''Békástanya''), Bucin (''Bucsin''), Ocna d ...
, Romania
*
Semlac
Semlac () is a commune located in Arad County, in the western part of Romania, near the border with Hungary, is situated in the south-western part of the Arad Plateau, in the large valley of the Mureș River. Its territory occupies . It is compo ...
, Romania
*
Vinga, Romania
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Civic Union of Mezőkovácsháza , Mezőkovácsházi Polgári Egyesület
Populated places in Békés County
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