Nógrád county

**Nógrád**


Nógrád
County seat :	Salgótarján
Surface:	2,544 km²
Residents:	193,946 as of 2016

Nógrád [ ˈnoːɡraːd ] ( German Neuburg , Slovak Novohrad ) is a county (administrative district) in northern Hungary . It shares borders with Slovakia and the Pest , Heves and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén counties . It has an area of 2,544.18 km² and 193,946 inhabitants (2016). The county seat is Salgótarján .

The name Nógrád is of Slavic origin. It can be traced back to the Slavic Novigrad (from Novi grad ), which means “Neuburg” or “Neustadt” in German and Újvár in Hungarian . It is probable that the first meaning was "Neuburg", since the castles were usually built first , then the places around them. First there was a castle of this name, Nógrád Castle , which was built on a 286 meter high castle hill. The place Nógrád around them was named after this, after which the whole county was named.

geography

The area is hilly and is crossed by the Northern Hungarian Central Mountains , a foothill of the Carpathian Mountains . The border with Slovakia is formed over a large stretch of the Eipel ( Hungarian Ipoly ).

structure

With the government ordinance No. 218/2012 of August 13, 2012, the statistical small regions (Hungarian kistérség ) were abolished on January 1, 2013 and replaced by an approximately equal number of districts (Hungarian járás ). The small areas were retained for a while for planning and statistical purposes, but were finally abolished on February 25, 2014. There were six small areas in the county before it was dissolved. Three administrative units remained unchanged in their borders through the reform.

Former classification

The following small areas existed in Nógrád County until the end of 2012:

the counties of Nógrád county

code	Small area	Administrative headquarters	Population (December 31, 2012)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
4201	Balassagyarmat	Balassagyarmat	39,829	532.94	29	1
4202	Bátonyterenye	Bátonyterenye	23,857	273.64	14th	1
4203	Pásztó	Pásztó	31,497	551.56	26th	1
4204	Rétság	Rétság	23,798	435.03	25th	1
4205	Salgótarján	Salgótarján	62,678	474.62	24	1
4206	Szécsény	Szécsény	19.096	277.68	13	1

Current classification

Nográd county is divided into 6 districts (Hungarian Járás ) with 131 localities: the city of Salgótarján with county law (Hungarian Megyei jogú város ), 5 cities without county law (Hungarian város ) and 125 municipalities (Hungarian község ). There are no large municipalities (Hungarian nagyközség ).

Location type	number	Area (in km²)			Population on January 1, 2016			Population density (Ew / km²)
Location type	number	absolutely	proportionally	on average	absolutely	proportionally	on average	Population density (Ew / km²)
City with county law	1	97.97	3.85%		35,188	18.14%		359.2
Cities without county law	5	240.33	9.45%	48.07	45,318	23.37%	9,064	188.6
Communities	125	2,206.18	86.70%	17.65	113,440	58.49%	908	51.4
Nográd county as a whole	131	2,544.48		19.42	193,946		1,481	76.2

The current circles are:

code	circle	Circular seat	Residents (January 1, 2013)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
116	Balassagyarmat	Balassagyarmat	39,829	532.94	29	1
117	Bátonyterenye	Bátonyterenye	21,590	215.45	8th	1
118	Pásztó	Pásztó	31,497	551.56	26th	1
119	Rétság	Rétság	23,798	435.03	25th	1
120	Salgótarján	Salgótarján	64.504	525.23	29	1
121	Szécsény	Szécsény	19,537	285.26	14th	1

Largest cities and towns

All places without a name are cities.

City / municipality	German name	Residents (January 1, 2016)
Salgótarján	Schalgautarian	35,188
Balassagyarmat	Fair	15,280
Bátonyterenye		12,221
Pásztó		9.212
Szécsény	Squeeze	5,883
Érsekvadkert , parish		3,468
Diósjenő , parish		2,784
Rétság		2,722
Karancslapujtő , parish		2,543
Buják , parish		2,170
Somoskőújfalu , parish		2.165
Nagyoroszi , parish		2.137

Population development

Population development of the county

It is worth noting an almost steady decrease in the population since 2001. Dates in bold are census data.

date	population	date	population
01/01/1960 ¹	235,675	01/01/2007	213.030
01/01/1970	234,430	01/01/2008	210.182
01/01/1980	240.251	01/01/2009	207,637
01/01/1990	227.137	01/01/2010	204.917
01/01/2001	221,605	01/01/2011	201,919
02/01/2001	220.261	October 01, 2011	202.427
01/01/2002	220,600	01/01/2012	202.734
01/01/2003	219,447	01/01/2013	200,755
01/01/2004	218.128	01/01/2014	198.392
01/01/2005	216.501	01/01/2015	195.923
01/01/2006	214,824	01/01/2016	193,946

¹1960: present population; otherwise resident population

Population development of the districts

Except for the district of Rétság, a negative population balance can be seen for the other districts

District name	Population level on January 1st
District name	2013	2014	2015	2016
Balassagyarmat	39,829	39,352	38,833	38,361
Bátonyterenye	21,590	21,383	21,086	20,718
Pásztó	31,497	31,172	30,883	30,644
Rétság	23,798	23,599	23,393	23,623
Salgótarján	64.504	63,470	62.506	61,625
Szécsény	19,537	19,416	19,222	18,975
Nógrád county	200,755	198.392	195.923	193,946

History and culture

The county emerged from the county of the same name (often called Neograd / Neuburg in German ) after the collapse of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1918 and was then united with the Hungarian part of Hont county to form Nógrád-Hont county . After the cession of southern Slovakia as a result of the first Vienna arbitration award in 1939 , the Slovak part of the county that had been in Slovakia since 1918 was re-connected to the Hungarian part until 1945 . The county has existed in its current form since 1950 , after a small part of the former Hont county was added to the Hungarian part of the county.