Sárvár ( hu, Sárvári járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Vas County. ''

Sárvár Sárvár (german: Kotenburg or ; la, Bassiana; sl, Mala Sela) is a town in Vas County, Hungary. Sárvár lies on the banks of the River Rába at Kemeneshát. The population is nearly 16,000. The town has become a tourist centre of internatio ...

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

Geography

Sárvár District borders with Sopron District and Kapuvár District ''(

Győr-Moson-Sopron County Győr-Moson-Sopron ( hu, Győr-Moson-Sopron megye, ; german: Komitat Raab-Wieselburg-Ödenburg; sk, Rábsko-mošonsko-šopronská župa) is an administrative county (comitatus or '' megye'') in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia ( ...

)'' to the north, Celldömölk District and Sümeg District ''(

Veszprém County Veszprém ( hu, Veszprém megye, ; german: Komitat Wesprim (Weißbrunn)) is an administrative county (''megye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county. Veszprém county Veszprém county lies in western ...

)'' to the east, Zalaszentgrót District ''(

Zala County Zala ( hu, Zala megye, ; ; ) is an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia ( Koprivnica–Križevci and Međimurje Counties) and Slovenia ( Lend ...

)'' to the south, Vasvár District to the southwest,

Szombathely District Szombathely ( hu, Szombathelyi járás) is a district in central-western part of Vas County. ''Szombathely'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. ...

and Kőszeg District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Sárvár District is 42.

Municipalities

The district has 2

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and 40 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 38,684 and the

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was 56/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 500) and Roma (400). Total population (2011 census): 38,684
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 34,410 persons: *

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Ural ...

: 33,185 (96.44%) *

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: 512 (1.49%) *

Gypsies The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...

: 390 (1.13%) *Others and indefinable: 323 (0.94%) Approx. 4,000 persons in Sárvár 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 – 24,648 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 24,606;

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– 32); *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exp ...

– 3,200; *

Reformed Reform is beneficial change Reform 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 *''Reforme'' ("Reforms"), initial name of the ...

– 543; *other religions – 209; *

Non-religious Irreligion or nonreligion is the absence or rejection of religion, or indifference to it. Irreligion takes many forms, ranging from the casual and unaware to full-fledged philosophies such as atheism and agnosticism, secular humanism and anti ...

– 1,197; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

– 177; *''Undeclared'' – 8,710.

References

External links

Postal codes of the Sárvár District
Districts in Vas County {{Vas-geo-stub