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.

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	City	County	Population (2013)	Urban county since
	Békéscsaba	Békés	61 046	1990
	Debrecen	Hajdú-Bihar	204 333	1990
	Dunaújváros	Fejér	46 813	1990
	Eger	Heves	54 867	1990
	Érd	Pest	63 333	2006
	Győr	Győr-Moson-Sopron	128 567	1990
	Hódmezővásárhely	Csongrád	45 700	1990
	Kaposvár	Somogy	65 337	1990
	Kecskemét	Bács-Kiskun	111 863	1990
	Miskolc	Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	162 905	1990
	Nagykanizsa	Zala	49 070	1990
	Nyíregyháza	Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	118 185	1990
	Pécs	Baranya	147 719	1990
	Salgótarján	Nógrád	37 199	1994
	Sopron	Győr-Moson-Sopron	60 528	1990
	Szeged	Csongrád	161 837	1990
	Szekszárd	Tolna	33 599	1994
	Székesfehérvár	Fejér	99 247	1990
	Szolnok	Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	73 193	1990
	Szombathely	Vas	77 547	1990
	Tatabánya	Komárom-Esztergom	67 406	1990
	Veszprém	Veszprém	60 876	1990
	Zalaegerszeg	Zala	59 618	1990

References[]

External links[]

• Alliance of Cities with County Rights