Karcag

47°18′40″N 20°54′58″E / 47.31111°N 20.91611°E / 47.31111; 20.91611CountryHungaryRegionNorthern Great PlainCountyJász-Nagykun-SzolnokDistrictKarcagArea • Total368.63 km² (142.33 sq mi)Population • Total19,732 • Density61.25/km² (158.6/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal codeArea code(+36) 59Websitekarcag.hu

Karcag (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkɒrt͡sɒg]) is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

Geography

Karcag covers an area of 368.63 km² (142 sq mi) and has a population of 20,632 people (2011).

Transport

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

Significant minority groups
Nationality	Population (2011)
German	48
Romanian	20
Russian	8
Slovakian	8
Serbian	6

Politics

The current mayor of Karcag is László Dobos (Fidesz-KDNP).

The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members (1 Mayor, 8 Individual constituencies MEPs and 3 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:^[1]

Party		Seats	Current Municipal Assembly
	Fidesz-KDNP	9	M
	Jobbik	2
	Momentum Movement	1

Twin towns – sister cities

Karcag is twinned with:

Notable people

• István Varró [fr] (died in 1770), the last speaker of the Cuman language
• Colonel Michael de Kovats (1724–1779), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
• Avram Hershko (born 1937), Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Margit Sebők (1939–2000), painter and educator
• Kevin Varga (born 1996), footballer
• Mihály Varga (born 1965), politician, since 2013 Minister of National Economy
• Suzi Diamond, Holocaust survivor.^[2]

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