City with county rights

A city with county rights (or urban county, Hungarian: megyei jogú város, MJV) is a level of administrative subdivision in Hungary. Since 1994 all county seats are automatically awarded this status, and since 2012 this is the only way a new city may become a city with county rights. However, all cities that achieved this rank before 2012 have retained their status and there is no law that provides for the revocation of this title. As such, cities like Hódmezővásárhely or Dunaújváros that are not county seats are still cities with county rights. Since 2006, there are 23 cities with county rights.[1] Before 1950, the former so-called cities with municipal rights (törvényhatósági jogú város) had a similar status as the present urban counties.

See also: Statutory city

Budapest is not considered an urban county and has a special status among the other Hungarian cities.

Every city with county rights is allowed to be subdivided into districts. The representative body is the General Assembly (közgyűlés) which elects with the County Assembly a council that takes care of different tasks related to the county.[2]

History

Between 1954 and 1971, the four largest regional cities received the megyei jogú város title. These were Debrecen, Miskolc, Pécs and Szeged. Then, from 1971 to 1990, the four previous cities and Győr were granted a new status known as "county city" (megyei város). This status was also extended to three other cities in 1989: Salgótarján, Nyíregyháza and Kecskemét. After the end of Communism, this status was abolished and replaced by the urban counties as before 1971. The eight megyei város and twelve additional cities became megyei jogú város.

List
Coats
of arms		CityCountyPopulation
(2013)		Urban county
since
Békéscsaba Békés61 046 1990
Debrecen Hajdú-Bihar204 333 1990
Dunaújváros Fejér46 813 1990
Eger Heves54 867 1990
Érd Pest63 333 2006
Győr Győr-Moson-Sopron128 567 1990
Hódmezővásárhely Csongrád45 700 1990
Kaposvár Somogy65 337 1990
Kecskemét Bács-Kiskun111 863 1990
Miskolc Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén162 905 1990
Nagykanizsa Zala49 070 1990
Nyíregyháza Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg118 185 1990
Pécs Baranya147 719 1990
Salgótarján Nógrád37 199 1994
Sopron Győr-Moson-Sopron60 528 1990
Szeged Csongrád161 837 1990
Szekszárd Tolna33 599 1994
Székesfehérvár Fejér99 247 1990
Szolnok Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok73 193 1990
Szombathely Vas77 547 1990
Tatabánya Komárom-Esztergom67 406 1990
Veszprém Veszprém60 876 1990
Zalaegerszeg Zala59 618 1990

References
  1. "Cities with county rights – Central Bureau of Statistics" (PDF). ksh.hu. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  2. "2011/CLXXXIX. Legislation about the Local Councils in Hungary". njt.hu. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
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