Barcs District

Barcs (Hungarian: Barcsi járás) is a district in southern part of Somogy County. Barcs is also the name of the town where the district seat is located. The district is in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.

Barcs District Barcsi járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Barcs District within Hungary and Somogy County.
Country	Hungary
Region	Southern Transdanubia
County	Somogy
District seat	Barcs
Area
• Total	696.47 km2 (268.91 sq mi)
• Rank	3rd in Somogy
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	23,793
• Rank	6th in Somogy
• Density	34/km2 (90/sq mi)

Geography

Barcs District borders with Csurgó District, Nagyatád District and Kaposvár District to the north, Szigetvár District and Sellye District (Baranya County) to the east, the Croatian counties of Virovitica-Podravina and Koprivnica-Križevci to the southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Barcs District is 26.

Municipalities

The district has 1 town and 25 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)^[1]

• Barcs (11,173) – district seat
• Babócsa (1,597)
• Bélavár (367)
• Bolhó (762)
• Csokonyavisonta (1,575)
• Darány (950)
• Drávagárdony (146)
• Drávatamási (401)
• Heresznye (247)
• Homokszentgyörgy (1,154)
• Istvándi (613)
• Kastélyosdombó (221)
• Kálmáncsa (654)
• Komlósd (168)
• Lad (558)
• Lakócsa (550)
• Patosfa (240)
• Péterhida (162)
• Potony (208)
• Rinyaújlak (271)
• Rinyaújnép (54)
• Somogyaracs (198)
• Szentborbás (116)
• Szulok (690)
• Tótújfalu (201)
• Vízvár (541)

The bolded municipality is city.

See also

• List of cities and towns in Hungary