Pest county

**pest**


pest
County seat :	Budapest
Surface:	6,391 km²
Residents:	1,234,541 as of 2016

The County Pest [ pɛʃt ] is a county in central Hungary , about the equivalent to a county capital Budapest . It is 6,391.04 square kilometers and has around 1.24 million inhabitants. It borders Slovakia to the north and, clockwise, the Nógrád , Heves , Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok , Bács-Kiskun , Fejér and Komárom-Esztergom counties . The county administration is located in Budapest.

During the major county reform in 1950 , the county was formed from the northern part of the historical Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county .

As part of the Great Hungarian Plain, the country is largely flat, only the north and west are hilly. The Danube flows through the county and makes a sharp bend to the south at Vác on the Danube Bend . The historically significant city of Visegrád with the neighboring city of Nagymaros is also nearby . East of Budapest is the former royal summer residence Gödöllő with the Hungaroring . The geographical center of Hungary is in the area of the municipality of Pusztavacs .

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Former classification

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. Until the dissolution there were 16 small areas in the county. Only the small areas of Nagykáta and Szentendre remained unchanged in their borders during the administrative reform.

Counties in Pest County

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

code	Small area	Administrative headquarters	Population (December 31, 2012)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
4301	Aszód	Aszód	34,289	241.39	9	2
4302	Cegléd	Cegléd	117.085	1235.55	15th	4th
4303	Dabas	Dabas	43,586	498.68	10	2
4304	Gödöllő	Gödöllő	109.992	380.87	12	4th
4305	Monor	Monor	111,353	449.55	15th	6th
4306	Nagykáta	Nagykáta	74,168	710.12	16	2
4307	Ráckeve	Ráckeve	146.153	628.33	20th	7th
4308	Szob	Szob	12,185	312.62	13	1
4309	Vác	Vác	70.714	431.74	19th	2
4310	Budaörs	Budaörs	85,635	240.68	10	4th
4311	Dunakeszi	Dunakeszi	83,586	125.18	4th	3
4312	Gyál	Gyál	45,469	286.54	5	2
4313	Pilisvörösvár	Pilisvörösvár	68,748	245.42	14th	2
4314	Szentendre	Szentendre	77,720	326.58	13	4th
4315	Veresegyház	Veresegyház	37,456	159.82	8th	1
4316	Érd	Érd	100.033	117.95	4th	2

Current classification

Pest county is divided into 18 districts (Hungarian járás ) with 187 localities:
the city of Érd with county law (Hungarian Megyei jogú város ), 53 cities without county law (Hungarian város ), 24 large municipalities (Hungarian nagyközség ) and 109 municipalities (Hungarian község ) .
The degree of urbanization is very high in this county, over a quarter of the villages have city rights.

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	60.54	0.95%		64,841	5.25%		1071.0
Cities without county law	53	2,539.18	39.73%	47.91	792.395	64.19%	14,950.85	312.1
Large municipalities	24	920.89	14.41%	38.37	133.108	10.78%	5,546.17	144.5
Communities	109	2,870.43	44.91%	26.33	244.197	19.78%	2,240.34	85.1
Pest county as a whole	187	6,391.04		34.18	1,234,541		6,601.82	193.2

The current circles are:

code	circle	Circular seat	Residents (January 1, 2013)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
122	Aszód	Aszód	36,992	298.37	11	2
123	Budakeszi	Budakeszi	84,646	288.95	12	4th
124	Cegléd	Cegléd	89,261	886.30	12	3
125	Dabas	Dabas	48,746	614.23	11	3 *
126	Dunakeszi	Dunakeszi	78,757	103.08	4th	3
127	Érd	Érd	117,304	184.29	7th	4 *
128	Gödöllő	Gödöllő	140.205	449.66	15th	6 *
129	Gyál	Gyál	40,309	170.99	4th	2
130	Monor	Monor	64,227	329.81	11	3
131	Nagykáta	Nagykáta	74,168	710.12	16	3 *
132	Nagykőrös	Nagykőrös	27,824	349.25	3	1
133	Pilisvörösvár	Pilisvörösvár	52,466	130.81	9	2 *
134	Ráckeve	Ráckeve	36,120	417.05	11	1
135	Szentendre	Szentendre	77,720	326.58	13	4th
136	Szigetszentmiklós	Szigetszentmiklós	110.033	211.28	9	6th
137	Szob	Szob	24,487	438.32	17th	2
138	Vác	Vác	67,781	362.19	18th	2 *
139	Vecsés	Vecsés	47.126	119.74	4th	3

* The above table already contains the 6 cities that were granted city rights in mid-2013 and were NOT included in the table of small areas.
These are in detail: Újhartyán (Dabas district), Őrbottyán (Vác district), Piliscsaba (Pilisvörösvár district), Diósd (Érd district), Sülysáp (Nagykáta district) and Kerepes (Gödöllő district).

Largest cities and towns

Locality	Residents (January 1, 2016)
Érd	64,841
Dunakeszi	42,467
Szigetszentmiklós	36,330
Cegléd	35,616
Vác	32,981
Gödöllő	32,437
Budaörs	28,394
Szentendre	25,802
Nagykőrös	23,589
Gyál	23,152
Dunaharaszti	21,018
Vecsés	20,673
Fót	19,216
Százhalombatta	18,599
God	18,351
Monor	17,960
Veresegyház	17,532
Gyömrő	17,236
Szigethalom	17,156
Pomáz	16,764

Locality	Residents (January 1, 2016)
Dabas	16,728
Pécel	15,494
Abony	14,508
Budakeszi	13,939
Pilisvörösvár	13,903
Törökbálint	13,385
Biatorbágy	12,932
Nagykáta	12,384
Kistarcsa	12,383
Albertirsa	12,188
Maglód	12,037
Üllő	11,774
Pilis	11,518
Isaszeg	11,264
Budakalász	10,673
Tököl	10.168
Solymár ¹	10,075
Ráckeve	10,069
Diósd	9,916
Kerepes	9,904

Locality	Residents (January 1, 2016)
Halásztelek	9,758
Csömör ¹	9,303
Tarnok ¹	9,259
Ócsa	9,247
Kiskunlacháza ¹	8,746
Sülysáp	8,280
Piliscsaba	8,194
Tura	7,689
Dunavarsány ,	7,659
Erdőkertes ²	7,645
Nagykovácsi ¹	7,469
Páty ²	7,260
Üröm ²	7,220
Őrbottyán	7,062
Mogyoród ¹	6,560
Aszód	6.160
Taksony ¹	6.137
Tápiószecső ¹	6,039
Tápiószele	5,869
Kartal ¹	5,606

Locations without an addition are cities
¹ large municipalities ( nagyközség )
² municipalities ( község )

Church in Dabas

Albertirsa
Museum village in Szentendre

Population development

Population development of the county

Dates in bold are census results.

date	population	date	population
01/01/1960 ¹	781.505	01/01/2007	1,176,550
01/01/1970	878,644	01/01/2008	1,195,020
01/01/1980	973.830	01/01/2009	1,213,290
01/01/1990	949.842	01/01/2010	1,229,880
01/01/2001	1,071,898	01/01/2011	1,237,561
02/01/2001	1,083,877	October 01, 2011	1,217,476
01/01/2002	1,089,478	01/01/2012	1,213,323
01/01/2003	1,105,412	01/01/2013	1,218,172
01/01/2004	1,124,395	01/01/2014	1,220,748
01/01/2005	1,143,629	01/01/2015	1,226,115
01/01/2006	1,157,564	01/01/2016	1,234,541

¹1960: present population; otherwise resident population

Population development of the districts

A positive population balance can be seen in most districts.

District name	Population level on January 1st
District name	2013	2014	2015	2016
Aszód	36,992	36,820	36,612	36,491
Aszód	36,992	36,820	36,612	36,491
Budakeszi	84,646	85,333	86,464	87,814
Cegléd	89,261	88,626	88,046	87,599
Dabas	48,746	48,808	48,701	48,784
Dunakeszi	78,757	79,728	80,753	81,632
Érd	117,304	117,564	118,735	120,359
Gödöllő	140.205	140,643	141,853	143.029
Gyál	40,309	40,564	40,740	41,034
Monor	66,233	66,538	66,722	67,332
Nagykáta	72,162	71,815	71,374	71,368
Nagykőrös	27,824	27,592	27,463	27,381
Pilisvörösvár	52,466	52,832	53,065	53,347
Ráckeve	36,120	35,971	35,787	35,765
Szentendre	77,720	77,918	78,476	79.144
Szigetszentmiklós	110.033	110,751	111,873	113.614
Szob	24,487	24,411	24,407	24,412
Vác	67,781	67,436	67,363	67,238
Vecsés	47.126	47,398	47,681	48.198
Pest county	1,218,172	1,220,748	1,226,115	1,234,541