Tiszafüred is a
town
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 o ...
in
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the
Northern Great Plain
The Northern Great Plain ( hu, Észak-Alföld) 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 Sz ...
region
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of central
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...
.
Geography
It covers an
area
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of and has a
population
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of 11,260 people (2015).
Gazetteer of Hungary, 1st January 2015
'. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015 Tiszafüred is the biggest city of the
Lake Tisza
Lake Tisza ( hu, Tisza-tó), also known as Kisköre Reservoir (Hungarian: ''Kiskörei-víztározó''), is the largest artificial lake in Hungary. It is located at the southeastern edge of Heves county, next to counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Ha ...
region, and it is the capital city of the Lake Tisza. It is a favourite tourist spot and offers many recreational activities such as water skiing, bush walking, and thermal baths.
Politics
The current mayor of Tiszafüred is Imre Újvári (Fidesz-KDNP).
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:
Notable residents
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Krisztián Budovinszky (1976-), footballer
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Anikó Szebenszky (1965-), race walker
Twin towns – sister cities
Tiszafüred is
twinned with:
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Chotěboř
Chotěboř (; german: Chotieborsch) is a town in Havlíčkův Brod District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 9,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zon ...
, Czech Republic
*
Płońsk
Płońsk (; yi, פּלאָנסק, Plonsk) is a town in central Poland with 22,500 inhabitants (2010).
Situated at the Płonka river in the historic region of Mazovia, it is the seat of Płońsk County in the Masovian Voivodeship.
History
Ac ...
, Poland
*
Senta
Senta ( sr-cyrl, Сента, ; Hungarian: ''Zenta'', ; Romanian: ''Zenta'') is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the bank of the Tisa river in the g ...
, Serbia
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Tiszafüred - KehilaLinks
Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County
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