Mátészalka () is a district in central-eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''

Mátészalka Mátészalka is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is on the Kraszna River, 52 kilometers from the city of Nyiregyhaza. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 17 ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of Szatmár historical and geographical region.

Geography

Mátészalka District borders with

Vásárosnamény District Vásárosnamény () is a district in north-eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. '' Vásárosnamény'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Regi ...

to the north,

Fehérgyarmat District Fehérgyarmat () is a district in eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Fehérgyarmat'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain, Northern Great Plain Statistic ...

and Csenger District to the east, the

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n county of

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to the south,

Nyírbátor District Nyírbátor () is a district in south-eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Nyírbátor'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This di ...

and

Baktalórántháza District Baktalórántháza () is a district in central part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Baktalórántháza'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. T ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Mátészalka District is 26.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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, 3 large villages and 20 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 64,015 and the

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was 102/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 7,500), German (1,000), Romanian (200) and Ukrainian (100). Total population (2011 census): 64,015
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 66,204 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 ...

: 57,546 (86.92%) *

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 , ...

: 7,259 (10.96%) *

Germans Germans (, ) are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, constitution of Germany, imple ...

: 899 (1.36%) *Others and indefinable: 500 (0.76%) Approx. 2,000 persons in Mátészalka District did declare more than one 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,

' * Reformed Church in Hungary, Reformed – 31,809; *Catholic – 15,959 (

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– 8,264;

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– 7,695); *other religions – 2,171; *

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 ...

– 3,884; *

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 ...

– 163; *''Undeclared'' – 10,029.

Gallery

File:Mátészalka légifotó.jpg,

, the ''district seat'' File:Győrtelek1.jpg, Aerial view of Győrtelek File:Vay-kastély és parkja5.JPG, Vay Mansion in Vaja File:Mérk légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of

Mérk Mérk is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slov ...

File:Mátészalka 2014 április 161.jpg, Park in Mátészalka File:Ököritói református lelkészlak.JPG, Reformed Parsonage in Ököritófülpös

References

External links

Postal codes of the Mátészalka District
Districts in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub