Szigetszentmiklós

Szigetszentmiklós
Szigetszentmiklós German: Nigglau
	Town/Város
	Kiniszi Street in Szigetszentmiklós
	Coat of arms
	Coat of arms
	Location of Pest County in Hungary
Country	Hungary
Region	Central Hungary
County	Pest
Subregion	Szigetszentmiklós
First mentioned	1264
Government
• Mayor	József Szabó (FIDESZ-KDNP)
Area
• Total	45.65 km2 (17.63 sq mi)

Main	Births etc

Szigetszentmiklós (German: Nigglau) is a town in Pest County, Central Hungary Region, Hungary.

Location[]

Szigetszentmiklós is located south of Budapest in the Csepel Island on the Danube river in Ráckeve Region.

History[]

After the Árpád dynasty was established, the region of today's Ráckeve belonged to the Hungarian king.

Szigetszentmiklós became a town in January 1986.

Demographics[]

Ethnicity[]

Hungarian: 91.3%
German: 0.6%
Slovak: 0.6%
Gypsies: 0.5%
Bulgarians: 0.2%
Ukrainian: 0.1%
Other/Undeclared: 8.5%

Religious denomination[]

Roman Catholic: 35.9%
Greek Catholic: 2.2%
Calvinist: 21.4%
Lutheran: 1.0%
Other denomination: 2.1%
Non-religious: 20.7%
Undeclared: 16.6%

(Source: 2003, KSH)

International relations[]

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary

Twin towns — Sister cities[]

Szigetszentmiklós is a twinned with:

Haukipudas (1992), Oulu Province, Finland
Gheorgheni (1996), Harghita County, Romania
Busko-Zdrój (2003), Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland
Specchia (2003), Apulia, Italy
Steinheim, Westphalia (2003), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Gorna Oryahovitsa (2004), Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria
Kočani (2004), Kočani municipality, Republic of Macedonia

Planned[]

Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Nord-Pas de Calais, France

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