Ráckeve () is a district in southern part of Pest County. ''

Ráckeve Ráckeve ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српски Ковин, Srpski Kovin) is a town on Csepel Island in the county of , Hungary. Its residents are mainly Hungarians, Magyars, with a minority of Serbs. The Serbian Kovin Monastery, the oldest in Hungary and ...

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

Geography

Ráckeve District borders with

Szigetszentmiklós District Szigetszentmiklós () is a district in south-western part of Pest County. ''Szigetszentmiklós'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary, Central Hungary Statistical Region. Ge ...

to the north, Dabas District to the east,

Kunszentmiklós District Kunszentmiklós () is a district in north-western part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Kunszentmiklós'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography ...

''(

Bács-Kiskun County Bács-Kiskun (, ) is a county (''vármegye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created by the merger of the pre-World War II Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. With an area of 8,445 km2, ...

)'' to the south, Dunaújváros District and Martonvásár District ''(

Fejér County Fejér (, ) is an administrative county in central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube and nearly touches the eastern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Veszprém, Komárom-Esztergom County ...

)'' to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Ráckeve District is 11.

Municipalities

The district has 1

town 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 ...

, 2 large villages and 8 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is city, ''italics'' municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 35,732 and the

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was 86/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 1,250), Roma (800), Serb (300) and Romanian (100). Total population (2011 census): 35,732
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 33,858 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 ...

: 30,997 (91.55%) *

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 ...

: 1,236 (3.65%) *

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 , ...

: 775 (2.29%) *Others and indefinable: 850 (2.51%) Approx. 2,000 persons in Ráckeve 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 – 13,063 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 12,868;

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 ...

– 195); *

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 ...

– 8,123; *

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...

– 254; *

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 ...

– 150; *other religions – 473; *

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 ...

– 4,199; *

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 ...

– 318; *''Undeclared'' – 9,152.

Gallery

File:Savoyai kastely.jpg,

Savoy Castle in Ráckeve Savoy (; )  is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps. Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south and west and to the Aosta Valley in ...

File:Rackeve church1.jpg, Serbian Church of Our Lady in Ráckeve File:Szigetcsépi Szabadstrand - 2014.07.30 (3).JPG, Landscape in

Szigetcsép Szigetcsép is a village in Pest county, Hungary. The Csepel Island has two villages, Lórév (Lovra) and Szigetscép (Čip), and the town of Ráckeve which is inhabited by Serbs as well as Hungarians and Germans. In this Hungarian village, appr ...

File:Zichy-emlékkápolna (római katolikus kápolna) (7115. számú műemlék).jpg, Zichy Memorial Chapel near

Lórév Lórév (Serbian: Ловра, ''Lovra'') is a village on Csepel Island in Hungary. It is situated in Pest County. Name Lórév means "horse ford" in Hungarian referring to the nearby ford of the Danube. Demographics Lórév is the only settlem ...

References

External links

Postal codes of the Ráckeve District
Districts in Pest County {{Pest-geo-stub