Szarvas District

Szarvas District Szarvasi járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Szarvas District within Hungary and Békés County.
Coordinates: 46.86°N 20.55°E / 46.86; 20.55
Country	Hungary
County	Békés
District seat	Szarvas
Area
• Total	485.06 km^2 (187.28 sq mi)
• Rank	8th in Békés
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	28,779
• Rank	7th in Békés
• Density	59/km^2 (150/sq mi)

Szarvas (Hungarian: Szarvasi járás; Slovak: Sarvašský okres) is a district in western part of Békés County. Szarvas 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

Szarvas District borders with Mezőtúr District (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County) to the north, Gyomaendrőd District to the northeast, Békés District to the east, Békéscsaba District to the southeast, Orosháza District and Szentes District (Csongrád County) to the south, Kunszentmárton District (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County) to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szarvas District is 6.

Municipalities

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

• Békésszentandrás (3,765)
• Csabacsűd (1,800)
• Kardos (608)
• Kondoros (5,201)
• Örménykút (374)
• Szarvas (17,007) – district seat

The bolded municipalities are cities, italics municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

Religion in Szarvas District (2011 census)

  Lutheranism (26.1%)

  Calvinism (4.1%)

  Catholic Church (19.0%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.2%)

  Other religions (1.2%)

  Non-religious (23.8%)

  Atheists (1.0%)

  Undeclared (24.6%)

In 2011, it had a population of 28,779 and the population density was 59/km².

Year	County population[2]	Change
2011	28,779	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Slovak (approx. 3,000), Roma (500), German and Romanian (100).

Total population (2011 census): 28,779
Ethnic groups (2011 census):[3] Identified themselves: 28,588 persons:

• Hungarians: 24,801 (86.75%)
• Slovaks: 2,820 (9.86%)
• Gypsies: 514 (1.80%)
• Others and indefinable: 453 (1.58%)

Approx. 200 persons in Szarvas District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

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

• Evangelical – 7,523;
• Catholic – 5,510 (Roman Catholic – 5,463; Greek Catholic – 47);
• Reformed – 1,191;
• other religions – 338;
• Non-religious – 6,860;
• Atheism – 278;
• Undeclared – 7,079.

Gallery

• 
  Szarvas, the district seat
• 
  View of Kondoros
• 
  Batthyány-Geist hunting lodge near Kondoros
• 
  Tessedik Sámuel Collage in Szarvas

See also

• List of cities and towns of Hungary

References

1. A KSH 2012. évi helységnévkönyve
2. népesség.com, "Szarvasi 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 Szarvas District