Debrecen District

Debrecen (Debreceni járás) is a district in central part of Hajdú-Bihar County. Debrecen is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography
Debrecen District borders with Hajdúböszörmény District, Hajdúhadház District and Nagykálló District (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County) to the north, Nyíradony District to the east, Derecske District to the south, Hajdúszoboszló District and Balmazújváros District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Debrecen District is 2.

Municipalities
The district has 1 urban county, 1 town. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) • Debrecen (207,594) – district and county seat

• Hajdúsámson (13,105) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 224,448 and the population density was 423/km².

Ethnicity
Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,000), German (1,300), Romanian (800), Arab (350), Russian and Ukrainian (300), Bulgarian (200), Rusyn, Slovak, Polish, Armenian, Greek and Serb (100).

Total population (2011 census): 224,448 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 200,417 persons: Approx. 24,000 persons in Debrecen District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.
 * Hungarians: 190,831 (95.22%)
 * Others and indefinable: 9,586 (4.78%)

Religion
Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:


 * Reformed – 56,252;
 * Catholic – 35,782 (Roman Catholic – 24,422; Greek Catholic – 11,339);
 * Evangelical – 820;
 * other religions – 5,571;
 * Non-religious – 58,858;
 * Atheism – 3,975;
 * Undeclared – 63,190.