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

Nyírbátor Nyírbátor () is a town in Szabolcs–Szatmár–Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. The town contains 15th and 16th century ecclesiastic and secular architectural heritage. Geography It covers an area of and ...

'' 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 Nyírség geographical region.

Geography

Nyírbátor District borders with Baktalórántháza District and

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

to the north, the

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n county of

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to the east, Romanian county of Bihor and

Nyíradony District Nyíradony () is a district in north-eastern part of Hajdú-Bihar County. ''Nyíradony'' 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 Statistical Region. Th ...

''( Hajdú-Bihar County)'' to the south,

Nagykálló District Nagykálló () is a district in southern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Nagykálló'' 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 Statistical ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Nyírbátor District is 20.

Municipalities

The district has 3

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, 2 large villages and 15 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 43,040 and the

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was 62/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 6,000) and Romanian (100). Total population (2011 census): 43,040
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 44,442 persons: *

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: 38,353 (86.30%) * Gypsies: 5,570 (12.53%) *Others and indefinable: 519 (1.17%) Approx. 1,500 persons in Nyírbátor 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,

' *Catholic – 21,094 ( Hungarian Greek Catholic Church, Greek Catholic – 12,538;

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– 8,556); * Reformed – 11,364; *

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 ...

– 45; *other religions – 314; *

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 ...

– 2,317; *

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 ...

– 105; *''Undeclared'' – 7,801.

Gallery

File:Nyirbator kirche.JPG,

, the ''district seat'' File:House from Pócspetri.jpg, Traditional house from Pócspetri File:Nyírmihálydi légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of Nyírmihálydi File:Görög katolikus templom (8299. számú műemlék) cropped.jpg, Greek Catholic Pilgrimage Church in Máriapócs

References

External links

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