Tiszaföldvár is a

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 ...

in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Be ...

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of central

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Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 12,027 people (2002).

Politics

The current mayor of Tiszaföldvár is István Hegedűs (Independent). The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members (1 Mayor, 8 Individual constituencies MEPs and 3 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:

Twin towns – sister cities

Tiszaföldvár is twinned with: * Bačko Gradište (Bečej), Serbia (2006) * Gräfenberg, Germany (2003) *

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, France (2004) *

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, Poland (2006) Tiszaföldvár also cooperates with other Hungarian municipalities with "földvár" in their names:

Balatonföldvár Balatonföldvár (, ) is a popular resort town in Somogy County, Hungary, on the southern side of Lake Balaton, approximately 120 km southwest from Budapest and about 23 km southwest from Siófok, the "capital of Balaton". Balatonföld ...

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and

Pusztaföldvár Pusztaföldvár is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slova ...

Gallery

Tiszafoldvar sign rovas script.jpg, Tiszaföldvár name written in both Szekely-Hungarian script (bottom) and Latin letters (top)

References

External links

* in Hungarian, English, German and French Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Jasz-geo-stub