Barcs District | |
Native Name: | Barcsi járás |
Native Name Lang: | hu |
Settlement Type: | Districts of Hungary |
Image Blank Emblem: | HUN Barcs Címer.svg |
Blank Emblem Type: | Coat of arms |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Southern Transdanubia |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Somogy |
Seat Type: | District seat |
Seat: | Barcs |
Area Total Km2: | 696.47 |
Area Rank: | 3rd in Somogy |
Population As Of: | 2011 census |
Population Total: | 23,793 |
Population Rank: | 6th in Somogy |
Population Density Km2: | 34 |
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 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.
The district has 1 town and 25 villages.(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)[1] The bolded municipality is city.