| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Coordinates: | 46.528°N 21.247°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Hungary |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Official Name: | Elek |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Békés |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gyula |
| Area Total Km2: | 54.94 |
| Population As Of: | 2012 |
| Population Total: | 4816 |
| Population Density Km2: | 101 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 5742 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | (+36) 66 |
Elek is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.[1] Until the Second World War, the town was home to the largest concentration of Germans in the county, with its population consisting almost entirely of Swabians. Jews lived in the city as early as the 19th century and in 1944 many of them were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.[2] [3]
The town covers an area of 54.94km2 and had a population of 5,567 in 2002.
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