Szerencs District Szerencsi járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Szerencs District within Hungary and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.
Country	Hungary
County	Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
District seat	Szerencs
Area
• Total	432.07 km2 (166.82 sq mi)
• Rank	6th in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	38,106
• Rank	5th in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
• Density	88/km2 (230/sq mi)

Szerencs (Hungarian: Szerencsi járás) is a district in central-eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. Szerencs is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.

Szerencs District borders with Szikszó District and Gönc District to the north, Tokaj District to the east, Tiszavasvári District (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County) and Tiszaújváros District to the south, Miskolc District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Szerencs District is 16.

The district has 1 town, 2 large villages and 13 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)^[1]

The bolded municipality is city, italics municipalities are large villages.

In 2011, it had a population of 38,106 and the population density was 88/km².

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 4,000) and German (850).

Total population (2011 census): 38,106
Ethnic groups (2011 census):^[3] Identified themselves: 38,709 persons:

• Hungarians: 33,893 (87.56%)
• Gypsies: 3,777 (9.76%)
• Germans: 827 (2.14%)
• Others and indefinable: 212 (0.55%)

Approx. 500 persons in Szerencs District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:^[4]

• Catholic – 18,124 (Roman Catholic – 16,714; Greek Catholic – 1,410);
• Reformed – 9,433;
• Evangelical – 51;
• other religions – 403;
• Non-religious – 2,083;
• Atheism – 121;
• Undeclared – 7,891.

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  Szerencs, the district seat
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  Lajos Kossuth birthplace in Monok
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  Vay Mansion in Golop
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  St. Stephen of Hungary Church in Tiszalúc

• List of cities and towns of Hungary
• Szerencs Subregion (until 2013)

• Postal codes of the Szerencs District

48°09′00″N 21°10′00″E / 48.1500°N 21.1667°E / 48.1500; 21.1667

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