Szeged District

Szeged (Hungarian: Szegedi járás; Serbian: Сегедински округ, romanized: Segedinski okrug; German: Kreis Szegedin) is a district in southern part of Csongrád County. Szeged is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Szeged District

Szegedi járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Szeged District within Hungary and Csongrád County.
Country Hungary
CountyCsongrád
District seatSzeged
Area
 • Total741.10 km2 (286.14 sq mi)
Area rank2nd in Csongrád
Population
 (2011 census)
 • Total204,263
 • Rank1st in Csongrád
 • Density276/km2 (710/sq mi)

Geography

Szeged District borders with Kistelek District to the northwest, Hódmezővásárhely District to the northeast, Makó District to the east, the Serbian districts of North Banat to the east and North Bačka to the south, Mórahalom District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szeged District is 13.

Municipalities

The district has 1 urban county, 1 town, 1 large village and 10 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)[1]

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

Demographics

Religion in Szeged District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (38.6%)
  Greek Catholicism (0.4%)
  Calvinism (4.6%)
  Lutheranism (1.0%)
  Orthodoxy (0.2%)
  Other religions (2.2%)
  Non-religious (20.8%)
  Atheists (2.1%)
  Undeclared (30.1%)

In 2011, it had a population of 204,263 and the population density was 276/km².

Year County population[2] Change
2011 204,263 n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,000), Serb and German (1,700), Romanian (750), Slovak (400), Croat (300), Russian and Arab (200), Polish (150), Chinese, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Greek and Armenian (100).

Total population (2011 census): 204,263
Ethnic groups (2011 census):[3] Identified themselves: 183,577 persons:

  • Hungarians: 172,834 (94.15%)
  • Gypsies: 1,932 (1.05%)
  • Others and indefinable: 8,811 (4.80%)

Approx. 21,000 persons in Szeged District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

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

See also

References
  1. A KSH 2012. évi helységnévkönyve
  2. népesség.com, "Szegedi 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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