Nyíregyháza () is a district in western part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''

Nyíregyháza Nyíregyháza (, ) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in the Northern Great ...

'' 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 Nyírség geographical region.

Geography

Nyíregyháza District borders with Sárospatak District ''( Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County)'', Ibrány District and Kemecse District to the north, Baktalórántháza District and

Nagykálló District Nagykálló () is a district in southern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. ''Nagykálló'' 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 ...

to the east, Hajdúhadház District ''( Hajdú-Bihar County)'' to the south,

Hajdúböszörmény District Hajdúböszörmény () is a district in northern part of Hajdú-Bihar County. ''Hajdúböszörmény'' 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 Statistic ...

''(Hajdú-Bihar County)'' and Tiszavasvári District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Nyíregyháza District is 15.

Municipalities

The district has 1 urban county, 3

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and 11 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

In 2011, it had a population of 168,118 and the

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was 208/km².

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 4,000), German (1,000), Ukrainian (500), Romanian and Russian (400), Slovak (250), Rusyn and Chinese (150) and Polish (100). Total population (2011 census): 168,118
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 154,055 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 ...

: 145,836 (94.66%) * Gypsies: 4,041 (2.62%) *Others and indefinable: 4,178 (2.71%) Approx. 14,000 persons in Nyíregyháza 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 – 61,853 ( Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 40,165;

Greek Catholic Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Greece * The Eastern Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Ea ...

– 21,678); * Reformed – 27,914; *

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 ...

– 10,039; *other religions – 3,076; *

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 ...

– 19,125; *

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 ...

– 1,450; *''Undeclared'' – 44,661.

Gallery

File:Town Hall, Kossuth Square, Nyiregyháza.jpg, Downtown of

File:Szabolcs-Earthwork.jpg, Earthfort of Szabolcs File:Nyírtelek, VEGA-M surface-to-air missile-2.jpg, Defence Memorial Park in Nyírtelek File:Újfehértó látkép.jpg, View of

Újfehértó Újfehértó (Yiddish, ) is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. History By 1920, the Jewish population had reached 1,303 people, 11% of the total population. On 17 May 1944, the ...

File:Nyiregyhaza Zoo, Hungary-1Dec2012.jpg, Main entrance of Nyíregyháza Zoo File:Nyíregyháza, Bethlen Gábor utca és templomtornyok téli estén - panoramio.jpg, Church towers in Nyíregyháza File:Móricz Zsigmond Színház - Nyíregyháza 2013 (18).JPG, Móricz Zsigmond Theater (Nyíregyháza) File:Cathedral in Nyiregyhaza.jpg, Our Lady of Hungary Church in Nyíregyháza

References

External links

Postal codes of the Nyíregyháza District
Districts in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub