Putnok District

Putnok District Putnoki járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Putnok District within Hungary and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.
Country	Hungary
County	Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
District seat	Putnok
Area
• Total	391.25 km^2 (151.06 sq mi)
• Rank	7th in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	19,290
• Rank	11th in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
• Density	49/km^2 (130/sq mi)

Putnok (Hungarian: Putnoki járás) is a district in north-western part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. Putnok is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.

Geography

Putnok District borders with the Slovakian regions of Banská Bystrica and Košice to the northwest, Edelény District and Kazincbarcika District to the east, Ózd District to the south. The number of the inhabited places in Putnok District is 26.

Municipalities

The district has 1 town and 25 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)[1]

• Aggtelek (535)
• Alsószuha (479)
• Bánréve (1,271)
• Dövény (283)
• Dubicsány (285)
• Felsőkelecsény (364)
• Felsőnyárád (980)
• Gömörszőlős (77)
• Hét (493)
• Imola (96)
• Jákfalva (525)
• Jósvafő (235)
• Kánó (163)
• Kelemér (525)
• Királd (834)
• Putnok (6,634) – district seat
• Ragály (649)
• Sajómercse (221)
• Sajónémeti (493)
• Sajópüspöki (503)
• Sajóvelezd (826)
• Serényfalva (970)
• Szuhafő (141)
• Trizs (195)
• Zádorfalva (480)
• Zubogy (577)

The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

Religion in Putnok District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (34.9%)

  Greek Catholicism (1.5%)

  Calvinism (27.6%)

  Lutheranism (0.6%)

  Other religions (1.8%)

  Non-religious (11.1%)

  Atheists (0.4%)

  Undeclared (22.1%)

In 2011, it had a population of 19,290 and the population density was 49/km².

Year	County population[2]	Change
2011	19,290	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx. 1,500).

Total population (2011 census): 19,290
Ethnic groups (2011 census):[3] Identified themselves: 18,547 persons:

• Hungarians: 16,821 (90.69%)
• Gypsies: 1,573 (8.48%)
• Others and indefinable: 153 (0.82%)

Approx. 1,000 persons in Putnok District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

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

• Catholic – 7,027 (Roman Catholic – 6,735; Greek Catholic – 291);
• Reformed – 5,326;
• Evangelical – 107;
• other religions – 347;
• Non-religious – 2,148;
• Atheism – 79;
• Undeclared – 4,256.

Gallery

• 
  Serényi Mansion in Putnok
• 
  Baradla cave
• 
  Sajó river from Sajónémeti
• 
  Traditional house from Gömörszőlős

See also

48.29411042350273°N 20.436039350496493°E / 48.29411042350273; 20.436039350496493

• List of cities and towns of Hungary

References

1. A KSH 2012. évi helységnévkönyve
2. népesség.com, "Putnoki 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 Putnok District