Pörböly is a village in

Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county ( comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares border ...

, southern

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Geography

The village lies in an agricultural flatland some 90 m above the sea level, 9 kilometres in the eastern direction is the river

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , ...

and the town of

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. Some 66 km ESE is Serbian town of

Subotica Subotica ( sr-cyrl, Суботица, ; hu, Szabadka) is a city and the administrative center of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Formerly the largest city of Vojvodina region, contemporary Subotica is ...

. The floodplain forest belt along the Danube river, the

Gemenc Gemenc is a unique forest that is found between Szekszárd and Baja, in Hungary. This is the only remaining tidal area of the Danube in Hungary. The wood's fauna include stags, boars, storks, grey herons, gyrfalcons, white-tailed eagles, and kit ...

nature reserve, starts beyond the village with many

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s, canals and distributaries. Bird observation places can be reached from here.

Transport

Hungarian highway M6 passes the town Bátaszék 9 km westwards. State road Nr. 55 goes through the village as well as a railway connecting

Bátaszék Bátaszék (german: Badeseck, sr, Батсек, Batsek) is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. The majority residents are Hungarians, with a minority of Serbs. "The oldest tree of Bátaszék" won the title of European Tree of the Year 2016. Th ...

and Kiskunhalas, both tracks cross the Danube eastwards to the town of Baja via the

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Híd what is the Hungarian southernmost Danube bridge. At the Pörböly railway station a narrow-gauge

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railway starts directing through the Danube forests northwards, the Gemenc State Forest Railway. {{DEFAULTSORT:Porboly Populated places in Tolna County