Karcag

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Karcag
Town
City Hall in Karcag
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5300
Area code	(+36) 59
Website	karcag.hu

Karcag (Hungarian pronunciation:

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

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]

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]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Karcag.

• Official website in Hungarian, English, German and Italian