Tiszalök is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Be ...

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of eastern

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 ...

Geography

It covers an

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of and, in 2015, had a

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of 5,395.

Notable people

Miklós Kocsis Miklós Kocsis (16 October 1932 – 5 November 2004) was a Hungarian sports shooter. He competed in the 100 metre running deer event at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and offici ...

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...

* Countess Adelaide von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1840–1925), medium, pioneer of spiritualism in Slovenia and Hungary *

István Simicskó István Simicskó (born 29 November 1961) is a Hungarian politician of the governing Fidesz– KDNP coalition. He has been a Member of the National Assembly since 1998. He served as Minister of Defence from 10 September 2015 to 18 May 2018. Stud ...

(1961–), politician, Minister of Defence (2015–) *

Viktória Csáki Viktória Csáki (; born 3 March 1986) is a retired Hungarian people, Hungarian Team handball, handballer. She got acquainted with handball in the school at the age of ten, and two years later she was already playing for local club TVSE. She w ...

(1986–), handballer *

Angelica Bella Angelica Bella (born Gabriella Piroska Mészáros; 15 February 1968 – 7 May 2021) was a Hungarian pornographic actress. She worked primarily and enjoyed her greatest popularity in Italy. Career Bella began her career in the adult film indust ...

(1968–2021), born Gabriella Piroska Mészáros, pornographic actress

References

Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County {{Szabolcs-geo-stub