Mórahalom District

Mórahalom District Mórahalmi járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Mórahalom District within Hungary and Csongrád County.
Country	Hungary
County	Csongrád
District seat	Mórahalom
Area
• Total	561.71 km2 (216.88 sq mi)
• Rank	5th in Csongrád
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	28,986
• Rank	5th in Csongrád
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)

Mórahalom (Hungarian: Mórahalmi járás) is a district in south-western part of Csongrád County. Mórahalom 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

Mórahalom District borders with Kiskunmajsa District (Bács-Kiskun County) and Kistelek District to the north, Szeged District to the east, the Serbian district of North Bačka to the south, Kiskunhalas District (Bács-Kiskun County) to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Mórahalom District is 10.

Municipalities

The district has 1 town and 9 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)

• Ásotthalom (3,986)
• Bordány (3,262)
• Forráskút (2,366)
• Mórahalom (6,067) – district seat
• Öttömös (698)
• Pusztamérges (1,227)
• Ruzsa (2,522)
• Üllés (3,142)
• Zákányszék (2,743)
• Zsombó (3,552)

The bolded municipality is the city.

Demographics

Religion in Mórahalom District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (65.3%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.2%)

  Calvinism (2.3%)

  Lutheranism (0.3%)

  Orthodoxy (0.1%)

  Other religions (1.5%)

  Non-religious (9.5%)

  Atheists (0.8%)

  Undeclared (20.0%)

In 2011, it had a population of 28,986 and the population density was 52/km².

Year	County population	Change
2011	28,986	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Romanian (approx. 200), German (150) and Serb (100).

Total population (2011 census): 28,986
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 26,831 persons:

• Hungarians: 26,127 (97.38%)
• Others and indefinable: 704 (2.62%)

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

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:

• Catholic – 18,988 (Roman Catholic – 18,942; Greek Catholic – 44);
• Reformed – 666;
• Evangelical – 75;
• Orthodox – 42;
• other religions – 425;
• Non-religious – 2,762;
• Atheism – 228;
• Undeclared – 5,800.

Gallery

• 
  Mórahalom, the district seat
• 
  Nagyszéksós-tó near Mórahalom
• 
  View of Ruzsa
• 
  Aerial view of Mórahalom

See also

• List of cities and towns of Hungary

External links

• Postal codes of the Mórahalom District