Karcag () is a large

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

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

Geography

Karcag covers an

area Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...

of and has a

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of 20,632 people (2011).

Transport

Karcag has its own

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, but

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trains do not stop here.

Politics

The current mayor of Karcag is László Dobos (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:

Twin towns – sister cities

Karcag is twinned with: *

Cristuru Secuiesc Cristuru Secuiesc (; , ) is a town in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The town administers two villages: Betești (''Betfalva''), part of Mugeni until 2004, and Filiaș (' ...

, Romania (1990) *

Kunszentmiklós Kunszentmiklós () is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. The name is derived from the Cumans (Kun in Hungarian). Twin cities * Cristuru Secuiesc * Blumberg Blumberg () is a municipality situated in the Schwarzwald-Baar region of Ba ...

, Hungary (2009) * Lazdijai, Lithuania (2004) * Lednice, Czech Republic (2006) * Merki District, Kazakhstan (1998) * Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia (1998) * Schwarzheide, Germany (2004) * Stara Moravica (Bačka Topola), Serbia (1994)

Notable people

* (died in 1770), the last speaker of the

Cuman language Cuman or Kuman (also called Kipchak, Qypchaq or Polovtsian, self referred to as Tatar () in Codex Cumanicus) was a West Kipchak Turkic language spoken by the Cumans (Polovtsy, Folban, Vallany, Kun) and Kipchaks; the language was similar to t ...

*Colonel Michael de Kovats (1724–1779), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag * Gyula (Julius) Németh (1890–1976), Hungarian Turkologist, linguist *

Avram Hershko Avram Hershko (, ; born December 31, 1937) is an Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. Biography He was born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag, Hungary, into a Jewish family, the son of Shoshana/Margit ' ...

(born 1937), Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry * Margit Sebők (1939–2000), painter and educator *

Kevin Varga Kevin Varga (born 30 March 1996) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Club career Debrecen On 18 August 2017, Varga played his first match for Debrecen in a 4–1 win against Vasas in the Hungarian League. Kası ...

(born 1996), footballer * Mihály Varga (born 1965), politician, since 2013 Minister of National Economy *Suzi Diamond, Holocaust survivor.

References

External links

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