Kecskemét ( hu, Kecskeméti járás) is a district in northern part of

Bács-Kiskun County Bács-Kiskun ( hu, Bács-Kiskun megye, ) is a county (''megye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created as a result of World War II, merging the prewar Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. Wi ...

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Kecskemét Kecskemét ( , sk, Kečkemét) is a city with county rights central part Hungary. It is the eighth-largest city in the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun. Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's thir ...

'' 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

Kecskemét District borders with

Dabas District Dabas ( hu, Dabasi járás) is a district in southern part of Pest County. '' Dabas'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Dabas District bo ...

and Cegléd District ''( Pest County)'' to the north, Nagykőrös District ''(Pest County)'' to the northeast, Tiszakécske District to the east,

Kiskunfélegyháza District Kiskunfélegyháza ( hu, Kiskunfélegyházi járás) is a district in eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kiskunfélegyháza'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain St ...

to the south,

Kiskőrös District Kiskőrös ( hu, Kiskőrösi járás) is a district in central part of Bács-Kiskun County. ''Kiskőrös'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geo ...

and Kunszentmiklós District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kecskemét District is 16.

Municipalities

The district has 1 urban county, 2

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and 13 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2014) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 155,481 and the

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was 128/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German and Roma (approx. 1,750), Romanian (700), Croat (150), Russian and Serb (200), Slovak, Bulgarian and Ukrainian (100). Total population (2011 census): 155,481
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 141,203 persons: *

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 Ural ...

: 134,683 (95.38%) *

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: 1,748 (1.24%) *

Gypsies The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...

: 1,734 (1.23%) *Others and indefinable: 3,038 (2.15%) Approx. 14,000 persons in Kecskemét 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 – 70,482 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 70,032;

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– 424); *

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– 15,788; *

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 exp ...

– 1,575; *other religions – 2,494; *

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 anti ...

– 21,788; *

Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

– 1,887; *''Undeclared'' – 41,467.

Gallery

File:Városi Tanácsház (2253. számú műemlék) 4.jpg, Downtown of

File:Kerekegyháza1.jpg, Aerial view of

Kerekegyháza Kerekegyháza is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, in southern 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 nor ...

File:Lajosmizsei Tanyamúzeum (ólak kamrával) 20130929 370.JPG, Farm Museum in

Lajosmizse Lajosmizse is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It is located at the end of a railway line from Budapest. History Lajosmizse is situated at the meeting point of north-south and east-west routes. Once the area was covered with groves, then ...

File:Városföld légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of

Városföld Városföld 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 Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether i ...

File:Cifra Palota.jpg, Cifra Palace in Kecskemét File:Kecskemét kilátás.jpg, Műkertváros district of Kecskemét File:Katona József Színház (Kecskemét).jpg, Katona József Theater (Kecskemét) File:Megyeszékhelyek - Bács-Kiskun megye - Kecskemét.jpg, Aerial view of Kecskemét

References

External links

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