page_title: Somogy County (former)
section_title: 1910
hierarchical_section_title: Somogy County (former) / Demographics / 1910
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethnic map of the county (with data of the 1910 census). Key: red - Hungarians; pink - Germans; light blue - Croatians; light green - Slovaks; light violet - Slovenes; black - Roma. Coloured dots in plain rectangles imply the presence of smaller minority populations (generally more than 100 people or 10%). Multicoloured rectangles imply cities and villages with multi-ethnic populations with the order of the stripes following the ethnic composition of the settlement.
context_page_description: Somogy was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was slightly larger than that of present Somogy county, is now in south-western Hungary. The capital of the county was Kaposvár.
context_section_description: In 1910, the county had a population of 365,961 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
  Total:
  Hungarian: 333,597 (91.2%)
  German: 18,718 (5.1%)
  Croatian: 9,934 (2.7%)
  Slovak: 364 (0.1%)
  Serbian: 44 (0.0%)
  Romanian: 63 (0.0%)
  Ruthenian: 4 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 3,237 (0.9%)
  According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:
  Total:
  Roman Catholic: 273,650 (74.8%)
  Calvinist: 63,569 (17.4%)
  Lutheran: 17,700 (4.9%)
  Jewish: 10,645 (2.9%)
  Greek Orthodox: 129 (0.0%)
  Greek Catholic: 106 (0.0%)
  Unitarian: 104 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 58 (0.0%)
  The city of Siófok, which used to be in Somogy county before the 1850s, went back from Veszprém county to Somogy county before World War II. After World War II, the district of Szigetvár went to Baranya county.
caption: Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
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