Szentkirály is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in Bács-Kiskun county, in the

Southern Great Plain The Southern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád. The region is in the ...

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of southern

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 ...

. The name, literally "Saint King," refers to King (later saint)

Stephen I of Hungary Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen ( ; ; ; 975 – 15 August 1038), was the last grand prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the first king of Hungary from 1000 or 1001 until his death in 1038. The year of his bi ...

Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 1987 people (2002).

Natural water in Szentkirály

High quality natural water in Hungary. The natural water from Szentkirály is a family company which began in 1989 in Szentkirály, Hungary. The company initially began as a soft drink company, but when the exceptional purity of the mineral water was discovered, the company began to sell the mineral water on its own merit. Szentkirály Ásványvíz Kft. was registered as its own company in 2003. The company Szentkirály currently manufactures a variety of mineral water products in an assortment of sizes, mineral content, and sparkling/still. Their three basic mineral waters are: * Still, packaged in pink * Sparkling, packaged in blue * Mild, packaged in green

References

Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County {{Bacs-geo-stub