Fehérgyarmat District

Fehérgyarmat (Hungarian: Fehérgyarmati járás) is a district in eastern part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. Fehérgyarmat is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of Szatmár historical and geographical region.

Fehérgyarmat District

Fehérgyarmati járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Fehérgyarmat District within Hungary and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County.
Country Hungary
CountySzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District seatFehérgyarmat
Area
 • Total707.37 km2 (273.12 sq mi)
Area rank2nd in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Population
 (2011 census)
 • Total37,259
 • Rank5th in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
 • Density53/km2 (140/sq mi)

Geography

Fehérgyarmat District borders with Vásárosnamény District and the Ukrainian oblast of Zakarpattia to the north, Romanian county of Satu Mare to the east, Csenger District to the south, Mátészalka District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Fehérgyarmat District is 50.

Municipalities

The district has 1 town, 2 large villages and 47 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)[1]

The bolded municipality is city, italics municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

Religion in Fehérgyarmat District (2011 census)

  Calvinism (62.4%)
  Lutheranism (0.9%)
  Catholic Church (7.9%)
  Greek Catholicism (5.0%)
  Orthodoxy (0.1%)
  Other religions (2.7%)
  Non-religious (5.2%)
  Atheists (0.2%)
  Undeclared (15.6%)

In 2011, it had a population of 37,259 and the population density was 53/km².

Year County population[2] Change
2011 37,259 n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 4,500), Ukrainian, Romanian and German (150).

Total population (2011 census): 37,259
Ethnic groups (2011 census):[3] Identified themselves: 38,367 persons:

  • Hungarians: 33,254 (86.67%)
  • Gypsies: 4,578 (11.93%)
  • Others and indefinable: 535 (1.39%)

Approx. 1,000 persons in Fehérgyarmat District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

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

See also

References
  1. A KSH 2013. évi helységnévkönyve
  2. népesség.com, "Fehérgyarmati járás népessége"
  3. 4.1.6.1 A népesség nemzetiség szerint, 2011, (in Hungarian)
  4. 4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011, (in Hungarian)



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