Bácsalmás (; ) is a district in southern part of

Bács-Kiskun County Bács-Kiskun (, ) is a county (''vármegye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created by the merger of the pre-World War II Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. With an area of 8,445 km2, ...

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Bácsalmás Bácsalmás ( or ; ; ) is a small town in southern Hungary in the region of Bácska (Bács-Kiskun County) close to the border with the Vojvodina region of Serbia, with a population of 7,694 people. History In the Middle Ages, the region came u ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography

Bácsalmás District borders with

Jánoshalma District Jánoshalma () is a district in southern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Jánoshalma'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Jánoshalma D ...

and

Kiskunhalas District Kiskunhalas () is a district in south-eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Kiskunhalas'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Kiskunh ...

to the north, the

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n districts of

North Bačka North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''no ...

to the east and West Bačka to the south,

Baja District Baja (; ) is a district in south-western part of Bács-Kiskun County. '' Baja'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Baja District borde ...

to the west and north. The number of the inhabited places in Bácsalmás District is 10.

Municipalities

The district has 1

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, 1 large village and 8 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is city, ''italics'' municipality is large village.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 20,094 and the

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was 38/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 1,100), Croat (550), Roma (300) and Serb (100). Total population (2011 census): 20,094
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 19,600 persons: *

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an Ethnicity, ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common Culture of Hungary, culture, Hungarian language, language and History of Hungary, history. They also have a notable presence in former pa ...

: 17,512 (89.35%) *

Germans Germans (, ) are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, constitution of Germany, imple ...

: 1,062 (5.42%) *

Croats The Croats (; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central Europe, Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian Cultural heritage, ancest ...

: 568 (2.90%) *

Gypsies {{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , ...

: 291 (1.48%) *Others and indefinable: 167 (0.85%) Approx. 500 persons in Bácsalmás 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 – 12,041 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 12,019;

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– 21); *

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– 1,048; *

Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...

– 36; *other religions – 169; *

Non-religious Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices. It encompasses a wide range of viewpoints drawn from various philosophical and intellectual perspectives, including atheism, agnosticism, religious skepticism, ration ...

– 2,016; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the Existence of God, existence of Deity, deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the ...

– 138; *''Undeclared'' – 4,646.

Gallery

File:Bácsalmás Szent Kereszt templom.JPG,

, the ''district seat'' File:Latinovits mansion, Bácsborsód 02.JPG, Latinovits Mansion in

Bácsborsód Bácsborsód (, ) is a large village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Until 1941, a small community of Jews lived in the village. After the Holocaust of the Hungarian Jews there wer ...

File:Bácsbokod-Bácsborsod vasútállomás.JPG,

Bácsbokod Bácsbokod (; ) is a large village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun County, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. The Danube River (River Duna) flows 20 kilometers to the west of the village.

-Bácsborsód railway station File:Tataháza szélmalom.jpg, Windmill near

Tataháza Tataháza (Croatian: ''Tataza'') is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 1,151 people (2018). Demography Magyars and small communit ...

References

External links

Postal codes of the Bácsalmás District
Districts in Bács-Kiskun County {{Bacs-geo-stub