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Karcag

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Country
  
Hungary

District
  
Karcag (seat)

Postal code
  
5300

Population
  
22,579 (2001)

Area code
  
59

County
  
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
368.6 km²

Local time
  
Friday 10:51 AM

Karcag

Weather
  
6°C, Wind NE at 6 km/h, 92% Humidity

Karcag is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

Contents

Map of Karcag, Hungary

Karcag has its own railway station, but InterCity trains do not stop here.

Twin towns — Sister cities

Karcag is twinned with:

  • Cristuru Secuiesc (Székelykeresztúr), Romania; since 1990
  • Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland; since 2005
  • Longueau, France; since 2004
  • Merki, Kazakhstan; since 1998
  • Moldava nad Bodvou (Szepsi), Slovakia; since 1998
  • Schwarzheide, Germany; since 2004
  • Stara Moravica (Bácskossuthfalva), Serbia; since 1994

    • Domestic partnership(s)

  • Kunszentmiklós, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County; since 2009

    • Geography

    It covers an area of 368.63 km2 (142 sq mi) and has a population of 22,579 people (2001).

    Famous people

  • Colonel Michael de Kovats (1724–79), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
  • Avram Hershko (born 1937 as Herskó Ferenc), Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
  • Mihály Varga (born 1965), since 7 March 2013 Minister of National Economy of Hungary, Minister of Finance of Hungary 2001-2002 and one of four Fidesz VPs since 2005.

    • References

    Karcag Wikipedia
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