Karcag

Karcag is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

Geography
Karcag covers an area of 368.63 km2 and has a population of 20,632 people (2011).

Transport
Karcag has its own railway station, but InterCity trains do not stop here.

Politics
The current mayor of Karcag is László Dobos (Fidesz-KDNP).

The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members (1 Mayor, 8 Individual constituencies MEPs and 3 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:

Twin towns – sister cities
Karcag is twinned with:


 * Cristuru Secuiesc, Romania (1990)
 * Kunszentmiklós, Hungary (2009)
 * Lazdijai, Lithuania (2004)
 * Lednice, Czech Republic (2006)
 * Merki District, Kazakhstan (1998)
 * Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia (1998)
 * Schwarzheide, Germany (2004)
 * Stara Moravica (Bačka Topola), Serbia (1994)

Notable people

 * István Varró (died in 1770), the last speaker of the Cuman language
 * Colonel Michael de Kovats (1724–1779), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
 * Avram Hershko (born 1937), Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
 * Margit Sebők (1939–2000), painter and educator
 * Kevin Varga (born 1996), footballer
 * Mihály Varga (born 1965), politician, since 2013 Minister of National Economy
 * Suzi Diamond, Holocaust survivor.