Kétegyháza
Encyclopedia
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain
Southern Great Plain
Southern Great Plain is a statistical region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North region. Southern Great Plain includes the 3 counties:* Bács-Kiskun* Békés* Csongrád...
region
Region
Region is most commonly found as a term used in terrestrial and astrophysics sciences also an area, notably among the different sub-disciplines of geography, studied by regional geographers. Regions consist of subregions that contain clusters of like areas that are distinctive by their uniformity...
of south-east Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
. It is one of the main centres of Hungary's Romanian minority.
Geography
Area
Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...
of 50.5 km² and has a population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
of 4464 people (2002).
Nearby municipalities
- Petőfitelep
- ElekElekElek is a town in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of 54.94 km² and has a population of 5567 people .-History:* first mentioned 1232...
- BánkútBánkútBánkút is a ski resort in Northern Hungary in the Bükk National Park. It lies 32 km west from Miskolc and 800-930 metres above sea level; officially belongs to the village of Nagyvisnyó....
- Nagy-KamarásNagykamarásNagykamarás is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of 43.07 km² and has a population of 1701 people ....