Kunhegyes () is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''

Kunhegyes Kunhegyes is a town in northeast Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, which is situated in Hungary. Twin towns – sister cities Kunhegyes is Sister city, twinned with: * Baia Sprie, Romania (2006) * Feketić, Feketić (Mali Iđoš), Serbia (1993) * Gmina Szer ...

'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of

Nagykunság Nagykunság ("Greater Cumania", ) is a historical and geographical region in Hungary situated in the current Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county between Szolnok and Debrecen. Like other historical European regions called Cumania, it is named for the C ...

historical and geographical region.

Geography

Kunhegyes District borders with

Heves District Heves () is a district in south-eastern part of Heves County. '' Heves'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region. Geography Heves District borders with ...

''(

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

)'' to the northwest,

Tiszafüred District Tiszafüred () is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. ''Tiszafüred'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography ...

to the northeast,

Karcag District Karcag () is a district in eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Hungary. ''Karcag'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain, Northern Great Plain Statistical Region ...

to the east and south,

Törökszentmiklós District Törökszentmiklós () is a district in central part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County in Hungary. ''Törökszentmiklós'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain, Northern Gr ...

to the south,

Szolnok District Szolnok () is a district in western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Szolnok'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Szolnok Dis ...

to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kunhegyes District is 7.

Municipalities

The district has 2

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and 5 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 20,045 and the

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was 43/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx. 4,000). Total population (2011 census): 20,045
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 21,823 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 ...

: 18,049 (82.71%) *

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 , ...

: 3,595 (16.47%) *Others and indefinable: 179 (0.82%) Approx. 2,000 persons in Kunhegyes District did declare more than one 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 – 4,742 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 4,712;

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– 30); *

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– 4,010; *

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– 19; *other religions – 189; *

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 ...

– 7,496; *

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 ...

– 106; *''Undeclared'' – 3,483.

Transport

Road network

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(N→S): Tiszafüred... – Kunhegyes District (1 municipality:

) – ...Fegyvernek

Railway network

* Line 102 (N→S): Kál-Kápolna (80, 84)... –Kunhegyes District (2 municipalities:

Abádszalók Abádszalók () is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. The town was established in 1895 by the union of the villages of Tiszabad and Tiszalok. Geography It covers an area of and has a ...

) – ...Kisújszállás (100)

Gallery

File:Kunhegyes városháza.jpg,

, Town Hall File:Tiszaroff légifotó.jpg, Aerial view of Tiszaroff File:Pusztataskony Szapáry Chapel.jpg, Szapáry Chapel in

Tiszabura Tiszabura is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. ...

File:Tisza-tó.jpg,

Lake Tisza Lake Tisza (), 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, Hajdú-Bihar ...

References

External links

Kunhegyes District - HunMix.huPostal codes of the Kunhegyes District
Districts in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Jasz-geo-stub