Paks ( hu, Paksi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of
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 borders ...
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Paks
Paks is a small town in Tolna county, in the south of Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube River, 100 km south of Budapest. Paks as a former agricultural settlement is now the home of the only Hungarian nuclear power plant, which provi ...
'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the
Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Paks District borders with
Sárbogárd District and
Dunaújváros District
Dunaújváros ( hu, Dunaújvárosi járás) is a district in south-eastern part of Fejér County. ''Dunaújváros'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Regi ...
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Fejér County
Fejér ( hu, Fejér megye, ) is an administrative county ( comitatus or megye) 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 ...
)'' to the north,
Kunszentmiklós District
Kunszentmiklós ( hu, Kunszentmiklósi járás) 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 Stat ...
and
Kalocsa District
Kalocsa ( hu, Kalocsai járás; german: Kreis Kollotschau) is a district in western part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kalocsa'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Stati ...
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Bács-Kiskun County)'' to the east,
Tolna District and
Szekszárd District to the south,
Tamási District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Paks District is 15.
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 ...
, 1 large village and 12 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)
The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.
See also
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List of cities and towns in Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages ...
References
External links
Postal codes of the Paks District
Districts in Tolna County
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