Gyula District

Gyula District Gyulai járás
District
Coat of arms
Gyula District within Hungary and Békés County.
Coordinates: 46.64°N 21.28°E / 46.64; 21.28
Country	Hungary
County	Békés
District seat	Gyula
Area
• Total	413.22 km^2 (159.55 sq mi)
• Rank	9th in Békés
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	41,627
• Rank	3rd in Békés
• Density	101/km^2 (260/sq mi)

Gyula (Hungarian: Gyulai járás; Romanian: Districtul Jula) is a district in eastern part of Békés County. Gyula is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography

Gyula District borders with Sarkad District to the north, the Romanian county of Arad to the east and south, Mezőkovácsháza District to the southwest, Békéscsaba District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Gyula District is 4.

Municipalities

The district has 2 towns, 1 large village and 1 village. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)[1]

• Elek (4,816)
• Gyula (31,679) – district seat
• Kétegyháza (4,007)
• Lőkösháza (1,762)

The bolded municipalities are cities, italics municipality is large village.

Demographics

Religion in Gyula District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (20.4%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.6%)

  Calvinism (14.9%)

  Lutheranism (1.5%)

  Orthodoxy (3.4%)

  Other religions (2.8%)

  Non-religious (26.9%)

  Atheists (1.4%)

  Undeclared (28.1%)

In 2011, it had a population of 41,627 and the population density was 101/km^2.

Year	County population[2]	Change
2011	41,627	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Romanian (approx. 2,500), German (1,250), Roma (1,000) and Slovak (150).

Total population (2011 census): 41,627
Ethnic groups (2011 census):[3] Identified themselves: 39,664 persons:

• Hungarians: 34,700 (87.48%)
• Romanians: 2,382 (6.01%)
• Germans: 1,252 (3.16%)
• Gypsies: 808 (2.04%)
• Others and indefinable: 522 (1.32%)

Approx. 2,000 persons in Gyula District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:[4]

• Catholic – 8,722 (Roman Catholic – 8,474; Greek Catholic – 244);
• Reformed – 6,191;
• Orthodox – 1,431;
• Evangelical – 625;
• other religions – 1,183;
• Non-religious – 11,197;
• Atheism – 571;
• Undeclared – 11,707.

Gallery

• 
  Gyula, the district seat
• 
  Vásárhelyi-Bréda Mansion in Lőkösháza
• 
  Landscape near Gyula
• 
  Gyula Castle

See also

• List of cities and towns of Hungary

References

1. A KSH 2012. évi helységnévkönyve
2. népesség.com, "Gyulai járás népessége"
3. 4.1.6.1 A népesség nemzetiség szerint, 2011, (in Hungarian) [1]
4. 4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011, (in Hungarian) [2]

External links

• Postal codes of the Gyula District