Karcag District
Karcag () is a district in eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Hungary. "Karcag" is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of Nagykunság historical and geographical region. Geography. Karcag District borders with Püspökladány District "(Hajdú-Bihar County)" to the east, Szeghalom District and Gyomaendrőd District "(Békés County)" to the southeast, Mezőtúr District to the south, Törökszentmiklós District and Kunhegyes District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Karcag District is 5. History. The  Karcag District is one of the newly created districts in 2013 and did not exist before the closure of the districts in 1983. Karcag had never been a district seat before, but as a city it had never belonged to any district, and since its creation in 1994 it has been a Karcag Subregion seat. Municipalities. The district has 3 towns, 1 large village and 1 village. The bolded municipalities are cities, "italics" municipality is large village. Demographics. In 2011, it had a population of 43,226 and the population density was 50/km². Ethnicity. Besides the Hungarian majority, the main  minorities are the Roma (approx. 3,500) and German (100). Total population (2011 census): 43,226 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 41,613 persons: Approx. 1,500 persons in Karcag District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census. Religion. Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census: