Tolna county

**Tolna**


Tolna
County seat :	Szekszárd
Surface:	3,703 km²
Residents:	223,618 as of 2016

Tolna [ ˈtolnɒ ] (German Tolnau ) is a county (administrative district) in south-central Hungary . It borders on Fejér , Bács-Kiskun , Baranya and Somogy counties . It has an area of 3703.17 km² and 223,618 inhabitants (beginning of 2016). The county seat is Szekszárd , other towns are Tolna and Paks , where there is a nuclear power plant .

geography

The area is hilly and is crossed by the northern foothills of the Mecsek Mountains. The land slopes gently towards the Danube , which forms the eastern border of the county.

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 five small areas in the county before it was dissolved. Only the administrative unit Tamási remained unchanged in its boundaries during the reform.

Former classification

Until the end of 2012 the following 5 small areas existed in Tolna County:

code	Small area	Administrative headquarters	Population (December 31, 2012)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
4701	Bonyhád	Bonyhád	28,118	377.46	21st	1
4702	Dombóvár	Dombóvár	32,333	509.02	16	1
4703	Paks	Paks	47,314	765.07	14th	2
4704	Szekszárd	Szekszárd	83,382	1,031.66	26th	3
4705	Tamási	Tamási	38,795	1,019.94	32	2

Current classification

Tolna county is divided into 6 districts (Hungarian járás ) with 109 villages: the city of Szekszárd with county law (Hungarian Megyei jogú város ), 10 cities without county law (Hungarian város ), 5 large municipalities (Hungarian nagyközség ) and 93 municipalities (Hungarian község ) .

Counties in Tolna County

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	96.28	2.60%		32,844	14.69%		341.1
Cities without county law	10	745.44	20.13%	74.54	92,885	41.54%	9,289	124.6
Large municipalities	5	290.90	7.86%	58.18	15,313	6.85%	3,063	52.6
Communities	93	2,570.55	69.41%	27.64	82,576	36.93%	888	32.1
Tolna county as a whole	109	3,703.17		33.97	223,618		2,052	60.4

The current circles are:

code	circle	Circular seat	Residents (January 1, 2013)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
140	Bonyhád	Bonyhád	31,582	476.77	25th	1
171	Dombóvár	Dombóvár	32,333	509.02	16	1
172	Paks	Paks	49,610	836.00	15th	2
173	Szekszárd	Szekszárd	59,412	656.18	17th	2
174	Tamási	Tamási	38,795	1,019.94	32	2
175	Tolna	Tolna	18,210	205.24	4th	1

Aerial view: Szekszárd

Largest cities and towns

All places without a name are cities.

City / municipality	German name	Residents (January 1, 2016)
Szekszárd	Six-hard	32,844
Paks	Paksch	19,117
Dombóvár	Dumbowa	18,461
Bonyhád	Bonnhard	13,322
Tolna	Tolnau	11,080
Dunaföldvár	Feldburg on the Danube	8,501
Tamási	Tammasching	8,068
Bátaszék	Bathing corner	6.118
Fadd , large parish		4.036
Simontornya	Simonsthurm	3,986
Decs , Greater Parish	Detsch	3,746
Hőgyész , large municipality	Hedjess	2,819
Bölcske , parish		2,754
Iregszemcse , parish		2,621
Nagydorog , large parish		2,544
Dunaszentgyörgy , parish		2,528

Population development

Population development of the county

Dates in bold are census results.

date	population	date	population
01/01/1960 ¹	272.101	01/01/2007	240.966
01/01/1970	258.760	01/01/2008	238.431
01/01/1980	266.273	01/01/2009	235.874
01/01/1990	253,675	01/01/2010	233,650
01/01/2001	251,594	01/01/2011	231.183
02/01/2001	249,683	October 01, 2011	230.361
01/01/2002	250,337	01/01/2012	231,533
01/01/2003	248.998	01/01/2013	229,942
01/01/2004	247.287	01/01/2014	227.996
01/01/2005	245.350	01/01/2015	225,936
01/01/2006	242,946	01/01/2016	223,618

¹1960: present population; otherwise resident population

Population development of the districts

A negative population balance can be seen for all districts.

District name	Population level on January 1st
District name	2013	2014	2015	2016
Bonyhád	31,582	31,322	30,955	30,594
Dombóvár	32,333	31,993	31,663	31,192
Paks	49,610	49,319	49,022	48,606
Szekszárd	59,412	58,958	58,410	57,923
Tamási	38,795	38,304	37,892	37,429
Tolna	18,210	18,100	17,994	17,874
Tolna county	229,942	227.996	225,936	223,618