Mezőkövesd () is a district in south-western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''

Mezőkövesd Mezőkövesd is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary. It lies from Miskolc and from Eger. Mezőkövesd is a town in northeastern Hungary, located in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, near the Bükk Mountains. It is known as the ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.

Geography

Mezőkövesd District borders with

Miskolc District Miskolc () is a district in central-western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Miskolc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Miskolc ...

to the northeast,

Mezőcsát District Mezőcsát () is a district in southern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. ''Mezőcsát'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geo ...

to the east,

Tiszafüred District Tiszafüred () is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Tiszafüred'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography ...

''( Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County)'' to the south,

Füzesabony District Füzesabony () is a district in south-eastern part of Heves County. ''Füzesabony'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary, Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Official curren ...

and

Eger District Eger () is a district in eastern part of Heves County. ''Eger'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. This district lies between of Bükk Mountains and ...

''(

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Mezőkövesd District is 23.

Municipalities

The district has 2

towns 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 20 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 42,432 and the

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was 59/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,500) and German (200). Total population (2011 census): 42,432
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 40,091 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 ...

: 37,326 (93.10%) *

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 , ...

: 2,202 (5.49%) *Others and indefinable: 563 (1.40%) Approx. 2,500 persons in Mezőkövesd 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 – 22,530 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 22,312;

Greek Catholic Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Greece * The Eastern Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Ea ...

– 212); *

Reformed Reform is beneficial change. Reform, reformed or reforming may also refer to: Media * ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang * Reform (band), a Swedish jazz fusion group * ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine Places * Reform, Al ...

– 6,163; *

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 ...

– 55; *other religions – 522; *

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 ...

– 3,274; *

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 ...

– 228; *''Undeclared'' – 9,662.

Gallery

File:Hungary Mezokovesd agriculture museum 1.jpg, Agriculture Museum in

File:Zsory furdocivertanlegi6.jpg, Zsóry Baths in Mezőkövesd File:Beehive stone.jpg, Beehive stone in

Tibolddaróc Tibolddaróc is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern 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, Ukrain ...

File:Bogács-Hungary-church.jpg, St. Martin Church in Bogács

References

External links

Postal codes of the Mezőkövesd District
Districts in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub