Esztergom ( hu, Esztergomi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of

Komárom-Esztergom County Komárom-Esztergom ( hu, Komárom-Esztergom megye, ; german: Komitat Komorn-Gran; sk, Komárňansko-ostrihomská župa) is an administrative Hungarian county in Central Transdanubia Region; its shares its northern border the Danube with Slova ...

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Esztergom Esztergom ( ; german: Gran; la, Solva or ; sk, Ostrihom, known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in northern Hungary, northwest of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom County, on the right bank of the river Dan ...

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

Geography

Esztergom District borders with the

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n region of

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to the north, Szob District and Szentendre District ''( Pest County)'' to the east, Pilisvörösvár District ''(Pest County)'' to the southeast, Tatabánya District to the southwest,

Tata District Tata ( hu, Tatai járás) is a district in northern part of Komárom-Esztergom County. '' Tata'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Ta ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Esztergom District is 24.

Municipalities

The district has 5 towns, 1 large village and 18 villages. (ordered alphabetically, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 93,784 and the

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was 175/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 4,200), Slovak (2,250), Roma (1,600) and Romanian (300). Total population (2011 census): 93,784 Ethnic groups (2011 census): *

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 Urali ...

: 79,701 (89.61%) *

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: 4,177 (4.69%) * Slovaks: 2,254 (2.53%) *

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: 1,601 (1.80%) *Others and indefinable: 1,209 (1.36%) *Did not declare their ethnic group: approx. 5,000

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011,

' *Catholic – 42,934 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 42,524;

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– 396); * Reformed – 6,018; *

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 expe ...

– 555; *other religions – 1,423; *

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 ant ...

– 14,400; * Atheism – 1,127; *''Undeclared'' – 27,327.

References

External links

Postal codes of the Esztergom District
Districts in Komárom-Esztergom County {{Komarom-geo-stub