Pörböly Explained

Subdivision Type:Country
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Official Name:Pörböly
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:Tolna
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:11.1
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:515
Government Footnotes:[3]
Leader Name:Sipos Lajos
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Party:Fidesz–KDNP
Population As Of:2022
Population Density Km2:auto
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:7142
Area Code:74
Pushpin Map:Hungary
Coordinates:46.2058°N 18.8133°W

Pörböly is a village in Tolna County, southern Hungary.

Geography

The village lies in an agricultural flatland some 90 m above the sea level, 9 kilometres in the eastern direction is the river Danube and the town of Baja. Some 66 km ESE is Serbian town of Subotica.

The floodplain forest belt along the Danube river, the Gemenc nature reserve, starts beyond the village with many oxbow lakes, canals and distributaries. Bird observation places can be reached from here.

Transport

Hungarian highway M6 passes the town Bátaszék 9 km westwards. State road Nr. 55 goes through the village as well as a railway connecting Bátaszék and Kiskunhalas, both tracks cross the Danube eastwards to the town of Baja via the Türr István Híd what is the Hungarian southernmost Danube bridge.

At the Pörböly railway station a narrow-gauge Bosnian gauge railway starts directing through the Danube forests northwards, the Gemenc State Forest Railway.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary . www.ksh.hu . 1 August 2024.
  2. Web site: Census 2022 . Census 2022 . 1 August 2024 . en.
  3. Web site: Település adatlap . Nemzeti Választási Iroda . 1 August 2024 . hu-HU.