Banská Štiavnica District

Banská Štiavnica District (Slovak: okres Banská Štiavnica; Hungarian: Selmecbányai járás) is a district in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia. Until 1920, most of the present-day district belonged to the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Hont, apart from Močiar and Podhorie in the north (Tekov) and Kozelník in the east (Zvolen county).

Banská Štiavnica District
District
Country	Slovakia
Region (kraj)	Banská Bystrica Region
Seat	Banská Štiavnica
Area
• Total	292 km2 (113 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	16,638
• Density	57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Telephone prefix	45
Vehicle registration plate[a]	BS
^ District-specific vehicle registration was discontinued in 2023.

Municipalities

District (2020)

Municipality	Area (km2)[1]	Population[2][3]
Baďan	15.09	171 ()
Banská Belá	21.07	1,194 ()
Banská Štiavnica	21.63	326 ()
Banský Studenec	19.19	475 ()
Beluj	22.81	137 ()
Dekýš	17.82	195 ()
Ilija	10.63	349 ()
Kozelník	9.01	160 ()
Močiar	20.91	161 ()
Počúvadlo	15.5	94 ()
Podhorie	21.63	326 ()
Prenčov	24.5	643 ()
Svätý Anton	22.62	1,225 ()
Štiavnické Bane	10.15	811 ()
Vysoká	14.55	140 ()