Kál is a large village in

Heves County Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) 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, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun-S ...

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. As of 2015, it has a population of 3,519, and 3,359 as of the 2021 estimate.

History

The earliest written record of the village dates back to 1331, and was already inhabited before the

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Demographics

According the 2011 census, 81.0% of the population were of Hungarian ethnicity, 10.8% were

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, and 18.8% were undeclared (due to dual identities, the total may be higher than 100%). The religious distribution was as follows: 56.8%

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, 1.7%

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, 9.9% non-denominational, and 19.5% unknown.

References

External links

* in Hungarian Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub